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THE BARD FAMILY 

A HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE 

BARDS OF "CARROLL'S DELIGHT" 

TOGETHER WITH 

A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 

AND GENEALOGIES OF 

THE BARD KINSHIP 



BY 

G. O. SEILHAMER, Esq. 



CHAMBERSBURG, PA. 
KITTOCHTINNY PRESS 

1908 



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^i)is( 25oofe is! i^ebicateb 

TO 

THE HON. THOMAS ROBERT BARD 

OF HUENEME, VENTURA COUNTY, CAL., IN 
RECOGNITION OF HIS CONSTANT ASSIST- 
ANCE IN GATHERING THE FACTS THAT IT 
CONTAINS AND OF HIS LIBERAL SUPPORT 
IN THE RESEARCH THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE 

2?|) tfjc autijor 



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Three hundred copies of this ivorh have been printed, 
of which this is No._L^_L 



PREFACE 

^THHE author of this work is content to let his 
book speak for itself and for him. His pur- 
pose was to make a Family Book of the Bards that 
would be a worthy history of a typical American 
family. He only claims for himself an honest pur- 
pose and conscientious research. 

G. O. S. 



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PAGE 



CONTENTS 

PART I 

A Chronicle of the Bards . . .1-142 

PART II 

Bards of "Carroll's Delight" , . . . .143 

Descendants of Richard Bard . . . 159 

Descendants of William Bard .... 263 
Descendants of David Bard .... 273 

PART III 

The Bard Kinship 299 

Potter Family 299 

Poe Family 349 

Cochran Family ...... 394 

McFarland Family . . . . . .418 

Parker Family 431 

Smith Family 451 

Little Family 471 



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THE BARD FAMILY 



PART I 

A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 

I 

^T^HE American habit of assuming that certain 
-■- surnames are of Scotch origin and being trans- 
planted from Scotland to Ireland have given to the 
United States a distinctive people, generally described 
as Scotch-Irish, often leads to results that are mis- 
leading. No better example of the confusion conse- 
quent upon attempting to restrict to a small kingdom 
a family name common to many lands can be found 
than the surname Bard, Barde, Baird or Beard. 
Speaking of the derivation of the name from the 
ancient Bards, Cosmo Innes, in his essay concerning 
some Scotch names, says: "the historian of an extant 
family of the ancient name of Baird, not satisfied with 
such a probable connection with the Muses, claims 
for them kindred with Boiardo, the Italian poet. But 
we had Bairds, or Bards, landed men, much earlier 
than suits that poetic origin." The name is found in 
Scotland as early as the thirteenth century. Duncan 
Bard, Stirlingshire, and Fergus de Bard, John Bard 
and Nicholas Bard, Ivanarkshire, are named in 
" The Ragman's Roll," 1296. The fact that they did 
homage to King Edward I, at the time of his "con- 

A (1) 



2 THE BARD FAMILY 

quest" of Scotland, shows that they were men of 
consequence. 

JMore than a century before Duncan Bard and 
Fergus de Bard swore fealty to King Edward at Ber- 
wick, Ugone di Bard, of the A^alley of Aosta, in Pied- 
mont, made allegiance to Tomaso I, of Savoy, going 
for this purpose in 1191 in charge of his tutor, Bona- 
facio di Monferrato. LIgone, his father, ranked next 
to the A iscount of Aosta, first lord of the valley. He 
was of ancient lineage and rich in lands, vineyards, 
villages and castles. Of his life at Castle Bard we 
know nothing , except that he had three sons, I^gone 
II, Anselmo and (TUglielmo. To the youngest, Gug- 
lielmo, the father bequeathed the Signoria di Bard. 
This caused a burst of resentment in I gone II, who 
denied his inheritance to Guglielmo and relegated the 
cadet to the castle of Pont S. JNIartino. Guglielmo 
rose in arms against liis brother and a fraternal war 
ensued. The combatants harried the vale of Aosta, 
and e\'en sacked and fired the inheritances of each 
other. Guglielmo burnt the castle of Champocher. 
Ugone destroyed the village and vineyard of Donnaz. 
Besides a son of Ciuglielmo was made a prisoner by 
Ugone. After much sanguinary and destructive war- 
fare peace between the brothers was restored, June 
19, 1214, through Oltinio, bishop of Ivrea, Ugone 
remaining the I^ord of Bard and Guglielmo accepting 
Pont San Martino and Arnaz. 

For a quarter of a century after tlie restoration of 
peace between the brothers Ugone di Bard pursued a 
life of brigandage and the Pass Bard was a place of 
terror. Finally, being called to order by Gottofriedo, 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 3 

Viscount of Aosta, the wicked I^ord of Bard turned 
upon the Viscount with the savage temerity of a mas- 
tiff, and in liis reckless scorn of Gottofriedo's autlior- 
ity he refused homage to Count Amedio of Sa\ oy, as 
is shown by an agreement between Count Amedio 
and the Viscount of Aosta. According to this docu- 
ment T>,ord (Tottofriedo and liis brothers promised 
faithful advice and assistance to the I^ord Amedio 
and his men until such time as the Rock Bard should 
be taken. Neither peace nor mercy was to be extended 
to Signor Ugone di Bard, or to his people, imtil the 
castle had fallen and its defenders been made prisoners. 
In his turn, the Count of Savoy promised five hun- 
dred "marchi" of silver to Gottofriedo, should he 
capture the castle of Bard and make Ugone a pris- 
oner. Being thus driven into a corner the I^ord of 
Bard surrendered to the Count of Sa^'oy, but refused 
to give himself up as a prisoner, preferring to renounce 
all right to home and land rather than to bend his 
head as a vassal. His brother Anselmo, ha\'ing also 
incurred the wrath of his sovereign, was likewise 
deprived of his badly governed lands. Conquered but 
not tamed, the two brothers departed fore\er from 
the Valley of Aosta and were never again heard of 
there. It is probable that T^gone took with him his 
two youngest sons, Rainero and Rossetto, but his two 
elder sons, Marco and Aymone, refused to join their 
father in his revolt and received from the Count of 
Savoy the Signoria of Sarre, and the lands Introd- 
Scarriod and of Chatel Argent. The Count reserved 
to himself the Castle Bard. 

Both brothers, JMarco and Aymone, took the name 



4 THE BARD B'AMILY 

of Sarriod, and were afterwards known as Sarriod d' 
Introd and Sarriod de la Tour. In a collection of 
papers on the Val' d' Aosta, published by F. G. 
Frutas in 1891, is a copy of the will of Guglielmo 
Sarriod, signore of Chatel Argent. In this will, which 
was dated in 1279, he left the whole of the castle, 
{totam honum mcavi de Castle Argenteo) to Domina 
Leonardo, his wife, expecting her to live in it with 
her three sons. From this it is argued by Guiseppe 
Giacosa, the author of " I Castelli \'^aldostani," that 
the Castle Argent could not have been originally 
what it is said all castles were at that time — a tower 
with at most two dwelling rooms. Boasting of several 
living rooms, Signor Giacosa infers that it must have 
been amplified and enlarged considerably from its 
earliest form, which from unmistakable traces dates 
back to Roman times. In this connection he points 
out that while what remains standing of the Castle of 
Pont Martino belongs to the thirteenth century, there 
are about it innumerable traces showing the original 
construction to be of much earlier date. There is a 
kitchen that is very interesting of the kind, the ceil- 
ing of which is arched in a manner to form the 
chimney. This ceiling is made cupola shape, with a 
hole pierced in the center, so that if a fire was built in 
the middle of the hall the smoke would escape through 
the orifice in the ceiling. The family could thus sit 
around the fire without annoyance from the smoke. 
A similar kitchen is found in the Castle of Introd, 
built or at least improved in 1220, by Marco or 
Marquetus di Bard, to whom the Pont San Martino 
also belonged. 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 5 

After the Duke of Savoy acquired the Castle Bard 
in 1238, he presented this Rock Bard, according to 
the document of 1244 ah-eady quoted, to his brother 
Tomasso di Savoya, Count of Flanders and Heinault, 
and it then became a State fortress. To make it 
worthy of its new character it was surrounded with 
bastions and furnished with artillery. In this condi- 
tion it remained until the close of the seventeenth 
century. In 1704 the Fort was surprised and taken 
by the Duke of Fogliato, who descended from Savoy 
by the lesser St. Bernard to the help of the Duke of 
Vandomo. Nearly a century later, in 1800, Buona- 
parte, in his descent into the valley, found at Bard 
the first real obstacle in the course of a successful 
campaign. So strong was the Rock Bard, with its 
fine display of buttress and its formidable walls, that it 
was defended by only four hundred soldiers against 
an army. Against its rough grandeur Buonaparte's 
artillery thundered in vain. The only way to over- 
come the brave little garrison was to ascend Mount 
Albano, overlooking the fort on tlie north. In two 
days a road was cut, bridges built where needed, and 
the precipices protected by bulwarks. Up this impro- 
vised roadway, so hastily constructed, the infantry 
climbed, not without loss, leaving the artillery and 
transports behind. Then the attack upon the fort 
from this vantage groimd began with disastrous effect. 
In the meantime Marmont had the narrow road to 
the fort covered with straw, and with grass tied around 
the wheels of the carts, he made a successful dash for 
safety during the night through the dangerous bit of 
highway dominated by the guns. After fourteen days 



6 THE BARD FAMILY 

of resistance the gallant little garrison was compelled 
to surrender, but the defenders were alloMcd to quit 
the fort with military honors. By the order of Buona- 
parte the fortress was demolished. 

The village of Bard is a long borough at the foot 
of Rock Bard. The river Doria Baltea flows on the 
south side of the valley across the commime surround- 
ing the fortress on the north side. ^V stone bridge 
spans the stream at the end of the village, leading to 
the communes of Hone, Pont Bozet and Champocher. 
At the western end is a fairly fine palace belonging to 
Count Federico di Bard. 

The ancient Bard family of the A^al d' Aosta is 
extinct in the Valley. In 1744 Giacoma Fillippino 
Nicola bought the ancient fued of Bard — Fort Bard — 
for $45,000, and was invested with the title of count. 
The title and estates passed to Fillippo Agostino di 
Gian Guiseppe in 1797. 



1 



II 



^OME say that the Signori di Bard originated 
^^ from the very ancient family of I^orraine. This 
descent is attributed to the sameness of name and the 
resemblance of the coats of arms of the two families. 
Nevertheless the name is not identical, for the Lords 
of Lorraine called themselves Bar. From this name 
came Barriod and Bazeros. The place today is called 
Bar le Due, a city of France, in the Department de 
la JNIoise. Even were the identity of tlie name estab- 
lished it would not prove much, since a family of 
Bard existed and may still exist in Alvernia, w^hich it 
is positively asserted is in no way connected witli the 
Bards of the Val d' Aosta. On the other hand the 
similarity of the coats of arms of the two families is 
very important. Described in the rather incompre- 
hensible language of heraldry it is thus : 

Of blue scattered with crossed stars and shafts of gold 
and on this two barbs (barbi). 

Aubert remarks that this "speaking" coat of arms 
(in French this fish is called a bar) is not to be accepted. 
It is, nevertheless, autlientical and existing both in 
Val d' Aosta and in the Duchy di Barrese. The like- 
ness in the "speaking" figure of the two barbi (fishes), 
which might have casually arisen from the likeness in 
the name of the two localities, does not materially 
alter the fact of the likeness in the tw^o coats of arms, 
since the only "speaking" figure they boast of is the 

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8 THE BARD FAMILY 

fish, the rest of the coat of arms being similar, especi- 
ally the color of the shield. Of "bar" or "barb," 
introduced in heraldy on the sound of the word, we 
find many examples, in different arms, as the Bar fleur 
of Normandy, whose coat of arms carries on a red 
ground a "barbe" on demi-argent surmounted by a 
gold fieur-de-lys, and again the Bartet, I sola di Fran- 
cia, carries on Azure, three barbi d' argent, placed in 
bar. 

In the heart of the ancient duchy of Bourgogne 
there is a small town, not far from Dijon, called 
Montbard, that was the native place of Buffon. This 
town boasts of a castle with a title attached to it. The 
coat of arms of the counts of Montbard was: 

0)1 azure two barbi (fish) of gold. 

This is identical, it will be perceived, with that of 
the Signori di Bard of the Val d' Aosta, excepting the 
scattered stars on the aziu'e ground. Practically the 
names of the two places, Bard and Montbard, are the 
same. The syllable, mont, placed before the real name 
means little. In the gently undulating country of 
Bourgogne, a mountain would naturally have greater 
importance in the estimation of an exile from the \^al 
d' Aosta and his descendants than among the decliv- 
ities on which towered the Rock Bard. It is not dif- 
ficult to conceive, under the changed conditions, that 
the added syllable to the name and the suppressed fig- 
ure that belonged to the coat of arms of the ancient 
house are to be traced, both in addition and suppres- 
sion, to the hand of Ugone di Bard himself. Nothing- 
was more likely than that the fierce Ugone, sensiti^'e 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 9 

concerning his name and wrathful over his lost Sig- 
noria Valdostani, should retain the speaking symbol 
upon his coat of arms while suppressing the figure, 
when refounding his family line with a modified name 
in another land. 

Members of the di Bard family were prone to 
change the family name and coat -of- arms, as was 
shown by others besides Ugone. A^^hen Marco and 
Aymone di Bard became Sarriod d' Introd and Sar- 
riod de la Tour respectively, the former chose a new 
device, as follows : 

On silver a blue band on which three <;olden lions 
decorated with blue. 

The arms of Sarriod de la Tour was more elaborate : 

On silver a blue band on which three golden lions 
decorated with blue, and in the left hand corner a red 
and black tower. 

There is a tradition that in the sixteenth century 
one of the members of the house of JNIontbard was 
sent to Aosta to claim titles, and to prove the fact of 
their springing from that family. " This is only a tra- 
dition," says (Tiuseppe Giacosa, "but I hold much of 
truth is in tradition," He adds: 

"Howbeit I wish to make it clear that I speak vaguely 
out of curiosity and assert nothing. The question is not 
sufficiently important to waste words on, much less time 
for researches. The greatest merit the story holds lies 
in its obscurity, for, should evervthing once be made 
clear, all interest would disappear. If there shall be any 
left who take pleasure in heraldy, such a person might 
find it interesting to discover if traces of affiliation are 



10 THE BARD FAMILY 

to be found in the various coats of arms. It would l)e 
enough to find if, among the Counts of Montbard, the 
names of Ugone, Ansehiio, Rainero and Rosetto (Ros- 
si tus) recur, which would denote fairly positively the 
origin of the family from the old house of Bard in the 
Val d^ Aosta." 

It has also been asserted that the Bard name is of 
Saxon origin, an assertion that is sustained by the 
fact that the name has been a common one in Ger- 
many for many generations. MacFirbis (" Irish Gene- 
alogies," p. 412f) claims Barde as Celtic, saying it was 
Maghaidh Saxonta (magadh — Irish, mocking, jeering)^ 
meaning tliat it was only in jest that it was said to be 
of Saxon origin. According to Dr. O'Hart ("Irish 
Pedigrees," Fifth edition, A"ol. I, p. 349), Owen Mac^ 
an-Bhaird (bhard: Irish, a bar; Heb. baar, was fam- 
ous), of Monycassan, was descended from Eocha, son 
of Sodhan, (Arms-Ar. two bars, gu. each charged 
with as many martlets or). From Owen the surname, 
JNIac-an-Bhaird, was anglicised JNIac Ward, modern- 
ized \\'^ard. Some of the descendants of Owen ren- 
dered the name O'Bairdain, variously anglicised Baird, 
Bard, Barde, Barden, Bardin, Barding, Barten, Barton, 
Berdan, Berdon, Purdon, ^^erdon and AA^ardin. 

AVhether the Bars of I^orraine were the progenitors 
of the Bards of Aosta matters little, as the names of 
Bard and Barde and even Baird are found in various 
parts of Europe from the tenth to the fourteenth 
centuries. There was a Seigneiu* de Barde among the 
followers of William, the Conqueror, in I06G. Henry 
de Barde was a witness to a charter of lands granted 
by King William the Lion in 1178, and Hugo de 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 11 

Baird was one of the subscribing witnesses to a safe- 
conduct granted by King Richard I to King WiUiam 
the Lion in 1194-. It will be observed by the last 
statement that there was a Hugo de Baird at the 
English Court at ^Vinchester three years after Ugone 
di Bard made allegiance to the Court of Savoy for his 
lands in the Val d' Aosta, Besides the Seigneur de 
Barde, Henry de Barde and Hugo de Baird, mention 
was made of Magistratus de Barde in 1224, Robert 
Baird in 1233, and Richard Baird in 1228 and 1240. 

©ne is tempted to believe it possible that Ugone 
di Bard and his brother, Anselmo, emigrated to Scot- 
land after turning their backs on the Val d' Aosta, and 
that Fergus de Bard and the other Bards, whose 
names appear on "The Ragman's Roll," were descend- 
ants of these fierce brothers. It may be claimed, 
unfortunately for this romantic hypothesis, that the 
Chartularies of Kelso and Paisley and Dalrymple's 
Collections point to a more prosaic origin for the 
Bairds of Auchmedden. The doubt that divides the 
romantic from the prosaic is a mere question of dates. 
If the year 1191 marks the close instead of the begin- 
ning of the turbulent career of Ugone di Bard, there 
was ample time for him to find his way to Scotland, 
to step between a ferocious boar and the king of 
Scots, and to visit Richard I of England, at Win- 
chester with William the I^ion in the same year that 
the Crusader returned to the English throne, freed 
from captivity and fresh from the conquest of the 
rebels in Aquitaine. Indeed, it is not impossible that 
Ugone di Bard, soldier of fortune that he must have 
become, fought under the banner of Richard of the 



12 THE BARD FAMILY 

Lion Heart at Freteval and in overcoming the revolt 
of his brother John, the last of the Angevine kings of 
England. In either case Ugone di Bard might have 
been at the English Court in 1194 to sign the name 
of Hugo de Baird to the safe-conduct granted by 
Richard of the I^ion Heart to William the Lion. 

Whether Hugo de Baird came to Scotland with 
King AVilliam the Lion, from the Court of Richard I, 
at Winchester, in 1 1 94, is a question that has only a 
speculative value, but before the close of the thirteenth 
century the family was a numerous one on the Scot- 
tish lowlands, from \A^igton to Stirling, and as far into 
the Highlands as Aberdeen and Banff. In Lanark- 
shire there was the noteworthy stock concerning 
which Thomas the Rhymer predicted that there shall 
be an eagle in the craig while there is a Baird in Auch- 
medden. At Banff were the transplanted Bards from 
Languedoc and Savoy. It was apparently to a Baird 
that AVilliam the I^ion assigned the boar passant for 
his coat of arms, but the Bards were even more active 
in the early centuries of Scottish history. \Mien Ber- 
wick fell, and Edinburgh, Stirling and Perth opened 
their gates to the English king, the Bards as well as 
the Bruce swore fealty to Edward I. ^Vt Bannock- 
burn and after, the Bards were hand in liand with 
Bruce in the Scottish war for independence. One of 
them, Robert Bard, had the misfortune to be captured 
by the English, and he was held a prisoner in Notting- 
ham Castle, for his removal from which to the castle 
of Summerton an order was issued in January, 1317. 
His fate may be surmised from the fact that in July 
following, Elizabeth, "late the wife of Robert, son of 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 13 

Ralph," was endeavoring to have Edmund Bard and 
John de Gemelyng put in her place to seek and receive 
her dower in Chancery at AA^indsor, she agreeing not 
to marry without the king's license. Robert de Bard, 
like many of the Scotch barons of that time, had 
estates in England^ — lands in Hertford that were for- 
feited, and at Bullerwith, in Yorkshire. Out of the 
latter, then held by William Bard, son of Robert, a 
tenth of a knight's fee was assigned to the widow in 
dower. This William, son of Robert, was probably 
the William Bard who was routed and taken prisoner 
with Sir William Douglas, in 1333, in a skirmish with 
Sir Anthony Lacy on the English border. 



Ill 



WHAT is more likely than that in Scotland 
Ugone di Bard's sons, Rainero and Rossetto, 
should become, according to later orthography, Rich- 
ard and Robert Bard, or Baird? In 1228, Richard de 
Baird must have been a man of wealth and conse- 
quence, for in that year he made a gift to the Abbott 
and JNIonks of Kelso, dated at Sismahagon (a cell in 
that abbacy), of all the tithes and corn of his lands 
south of the Avon, namely Gret Kyp and I^ittle Kyp, 
Glengevel, Polnepo and I.,ouhere, the subscribing 
witnesses including William de JNIaitland, ancestor of 
the Earl of Lauderdale; Arcliibald, I^ord Douglas; 
William Fleming, ancestor of the Earl of AVigton, 
and Malcolm I^ockhart. The grant from Richard 
Baird to the monastery of Kelso was confirmed by 
King Alexander II, May 26, 1240. This grant of 
the lands of Little Kyp and Long Kyp afterward 
belonged to Saint Bride's chapel, in the parish of 
Strathavon, I^anarkshire, and they were known as the 
chapel lands. After the Reformation these lands 
became the property of the Hamilton family. That 
Richard Baird remained in the parish of Stratha^'on is 
shown by the fact that in 1240 he obtained the grant 
of a charter from Robert, son of Waldevus de Biggar, 
upon the lands of Meikle and I^ittle Kyp, in the 
county of Lanark. In Nisbet's Heraldry, Fergus de 
Bard, whose name appears on "The Ragman's Roll," 
is described as of INIeikle and Little Kyp. 

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A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 15 

Jordan Baird, presumably a son of Fergus de Bard, 
was a constant companion of the brave Sir William 
Wallace in all his warlike exploits, 12971 305. From 
him, probably, came Sir William Baird, of Evandale, 
(Dumfrieshire) who accompanied the Earl of Douglas 
at the battle of Poictiers, September 19, 1356. In 
April, 1768, Sir William Johnston, of Hilton, told 
William Baird, the historian of the family, that some 
years before he had seen a lineal genealogy from 
Jordan Baird to Sir James Baird, of Auchmedden, 
who served in America and who was a great-great 
grandson of George Baird, of Auchmedden, County 
Aberdeen, Scotland, who was living in 1588. He 
was chief of the clan. From him came the Bairds of 
Auchmedden and Saughton Hall. The Bairds of 
Auchmedden are a family of great antiquity. Among 
the traditions relating to the family is one to the effect 
that while AVilliam the Lion was hunting in one of 
the southwestern counties he was alarmed by the 
approach of a m ild boar. The king had strayed away 
from his attendants and was alone. He called for 
assistance and was answered by a gentleman named 
Baird, who had the good fortune to slay the object of 
the monarch's alarm. For this service King William 
conferred large tracts of land upon his deliverer, and 
assigned for his coat of arms a boar passant, with the 
motto: Do minus fecit. The arms are to be seen on 
an ancient monument of the Bairds of Auchmedden, 
in the churchyard of Banff. It is probable that the 
person thus distinguished was Hugo de Baird, who 
was at the English Court with King William the 
Lion in 1194. 



16 THE BARD FAMILY 

James Baird, son of George Baird, of Aiichmed- 
den, head of the clan in 1588, was a commissary of 
the Ecclesiastical Court of Scotland in the time of 
Charles I. His son and heir, Sir John Baird, was a 
lord of session under the title of Lord Newbyth. I^ord 
Newbyth's only son, William Baird, was created a 
baronet of Nova Scotia in 1695-96. Sir William's 
only son. Sir John Baird, died without issue in 1746. 
The title expired with him. He entailed his estates 
upon his cousin, William Baird, son of ^^'^illiam Baird, 
of the Saughton Hall family. 

Sir Robert Baird, the ancestor of the Bairds of 
Saughton Hall, in INIid-Lothiam, was a younger 
brother of Sir John Baird, Lord Newbyth. His elder 
son. Sir James Baird, who died in 1740, was created a 
baronet of Nova Scotia, February 28, 1695 96. He 
married Elizabeth (Gibson) Gray, daughter of Sir 
Alexander Gibson, of Pentland, and widow of 
Thomas Gray, Esq. He was succeeded by his son. 
Sir Robert Baird, who survived his father only one 
year. His wife was Janet Baikie, of Tankerness, 
Orkney. His successor was his elder son, James, an 
officer in the Royal Navy, who served in America. 
He died unmarried, and was succeeded in the baro- 
netcy by his brother, AVilliam. Sir William Baird 
married Frances Gardiner, daughter of the celebrated 
Colonel James Gardiner. He died in 1770, and was 
succeeded by his son. Sir James Gardiner Baird, who 
was a lieutenant-colonel in the British army, and 
served in America during the Revolutionary struggle. 
This was the Sir James Baird, who, with his company 
of light infantry, attacked a party of Americans in a 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 17 

barn near Hackensack, N. J., in September, 1778, 
with such ruthless impetuosity that nine out of six- 
teen men were instantly bayonetted. He was also 
conspicuous in the action near the junction of Briar 
creek with the Savannah river in March, 1779, in 
which a few Continentals and a little army of North 
Carolina militia, under General Ashe, were surprised 
and slaughtered. Upon his return to Scotland, in 
1781, he was married to Henrietta Johnston, daughter 
of Wynne Johnston, of Hiltown. He died in 1830, 
and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson. 
Sir James Gardiner Baird, son of his deceased son, 
William Baird. 

William Baird, who succeeded to the estates of his 
cousin. Sir John Baird, of Newbyth, was a son of 
William Baird, a merchant and one of the baillies of 
Edinburgh, and a grandson of Sir Robert Baird, of 
Saughton Hall., He was married to Alicia Johnston, 
of Hiltown, County Berwick. His eldest son and heir 
was Robert Baird, but the most distinguished of his 
children was Cxcneral Sir David Baird, who was colonel 
of the 24th Foot, and rose to the rank of a general in 
the British army. At Seringapatam he headed the 
storming party and led them on to victory. He was 
the commander-in-chief at the capture of the Cape of 
Good Hope, and his achievements in Egypt procured 
him the order of the Bath from his own sovereign, 
and the insignia of the Crescent from the Sultan. He 
was wounded in the shoulder at the bombardment of 
Copenhagen, and lost an arm at Corunna, soon after 
the fall of the gallant Sir John Moore. General Baird 
was created a baronet April 13, 1809, with remainder. 



18 THE BARD FAMILY 

in default of issue, to his eldest brother, Robert Baird, 
Esq., of Newbyth. He married August 4, 1810, Pres- 
ton Campbell, of Fern Tower and Locklane, County 
Perth; they had no children. He died August 18, 
1829. The third son of William Baird, of Newbyth, 
was Joseph Baird, who was also a distinguished soldier 
and rose to the rank of major-general in the British 
army. He was married February 27, 1802, to Esther 
Charlotte Tonson, daughter of William, first Baron of 
Riversdale, of Rathcormac ; they had one son, William 
Baird. He died at the Cape of Good Hope, April 4, 
1816. The other children of William and Alicia 
(Johnston) Baird were Mary, married John Erskine, 
Esq.; Catharine married James Raine, Esq.; Janet; 
Alicia, married Captain Andrew Wauchope, of Nid- 
dery; Sidney; Susan (died April 30, 1832), married 
Lieutenant-Colonel H. Cerjat; Anne, married George 
Godon, Esq., of Halhead, and Charlotte, married 
George, Lord Haddo. 

Robert Baird, son and heir of William Baird, of 
Newbyth, was married to a daughter of David Gaven, 
of Langton, and had four sons, David, William, John 
and James, and a daughter Elizabeth. His third son, 
John Baird, was a midshipman in the Royal Navy ; 
he was fatally wounded in the attack upon Algiers, in 
September, 1806. David Baird, the eldest son of 
Robert Baird, of Newbyth, succeeded his uncle, Gen- 
eral Sir David Baird, as second baronet. Sir David 
Baird was married to Lady Anne Kennedy, daughter 
of Archibald, Marques of Ailsa. The Marques was a 
son of Archibald Kennedy, a distinguished officer in 
the Royal Navy, who succeeded to the Earldom of 




A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 19 

Cassilis, as the eleventh earl, and was created Marques 
of Ailsa in 1831, by his wife, Anne Watts, daughter 
of John Watts, Esq., of New York. Sir David Baird 
died in 1852, and was succeeded by his son, Sir David 
Baird, who was born at Newbyth House, Haddington, 
N. B., in 1832. He was a lieutenant in the 74th 
Highlanders, captain in the 98th Foot, and a major. 
He was married in 1864 to Ellen, daughter of Charles, 
Lord Blantyre. His son and heir, David Baird, was 
born in 1865. 



IV 



TT IS said in the "Genealogical Collections Con- 
^ cerning the Sir Name of Baird," that three sons of 
Gilbert Baird, of Auchmedden, and I^illias, his wife, 
who was the only child and heiress of Walter Baird, 
of Ordinhwas, went to Ireland as adventurers in the 
beginning of the reign of King James I. The author 
of the Auchmedden genealogy further says : "As to 
the posterity of Gilbert's three sons that went to 
Ireland to push their fortunes, several inquiries have 
been made in that country, but no account to be 
depended on is yet received." If this was true in the 
life time of William Baird, Esq., (1701-1750), the last 
of the Bairds of Auchmedden, it might be assumed 
that it is impossible now. It is certain that there are 
no available traditions either in Scotland or Ireland 
that would be an aid in the search. 

According to James Baird, a carpenter, living at 
Raphoe, County Donegal, in 1902, all the Bairds in 
Ireland spring from three brothers — John, William 
and David Baird, — who came from Killmarnock, 
Ayrshire, at or about the time of the Plantation of 
Ulster. This tradition is entitled to as much weight 
as that of AVilliam Baird, of Auchmedden. If it is 
well founded the Bairds in the North of Ireland are 
probably derived from the Bairds of Kilhenzie, who 
possessed the castle of May bole in the sixteenth 
century. 

The early liistory of the parish of Maybole is 

(-20) 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 21 

involved in considerable obscurity, but the town was 
created a burgh of barony November 14, 1516, in a 
grant to Gilbert, Earl of Cassilis, the patron, and to 
the provost and prebendaries of the Collegiate Church 
of Maybole, to which belonged the lands whereon the 
town is situated. In October, 1639, an act ordaining 
that the head courts of Carrick should be held at 
Maybole was passed by the Lords of the Articles. 

"This toune of Maboll," says Abercrumniie, 
"stands upon an ascending ground, from east to west, 
and lyes open to the south. It hath one principall 
street, with houses upon both sydes, built of freestone; 
and it is beautifyed with the situation of two castles, 
one at each end of this street. That on the east 
belongs to the Earle of Cassilis; beyond which, east- 
ward, stands a great new building, which be his 
granaries. On the west end is a castle, which belonged 
to the Laird of Blairquhan, which is now the tolbuith, 
and is adorned with a pyremide and a row of ballesters 
round it, raised from the top of the stair-case, into 
which they have mounted a fyne clock. There by four 
lanes which passe from the principall street; one is 
called the Black-A''enall, which is steep, declining to 
southeast, and leads to a lower street, which is far the 
larger than the high chiefe street, and it runs from the 
Kirkland to the Welltrees; in which there have been 
many pretty buildings, belonging to the severall 
gentry of the countrey, who were wont to resort 
thither in winter, and divert themselves in converse 
together at their owne houses. It was once the prin- 
cipall street of the toune ; but many of these houses 
of the gentry have been decayed and ruined, it has 



22 THE BARD FAMILY 

lost much of its ancient beautie. Just opposite to this 
venall, there is another that leads northwest from 
the chief street to the green which is a pleasant 
plott of ground, enclosed round with an earthern 
wall, wherein they were wont to play at foot balh 
but now at the Gowffe and byasse-bowls. At the 
east end of the principall street are other two lanes, 
the one called FouU Venall, carryes northward ; the 
other farder east, upon the chiefe street, passes to the 
southeast, and is called the Kirk-\ enall, and is the 
great resort of the people from the toune to the 
church. The houses of this toune, on both sydes of 
the street, have their several gardens belonging to 
them ; and in the lower street there be some pretty 
orchards, that yield store of good fruit." 

The description thus given by Abercrummie two 
hundred years ago, presents a minute picture of JNIay- 
bole even at the present time. The town has no doubt 
grown to some extent during so long a period, but 
not in proportion to many other places in the county 
comparatively of modern date. On the east the town 
is no longer bounded by the castle, and the Earl of 
Cassilis' granaries. The castle, no doubt, occupies its 
original site, but a superior range of buildings, called 
the New Yards, extends the line of houses very con- 
siderably in that quarter. On the west, Whitehall, 
and a number of recent buildings, have produced a 
similar extension; while upon the north and south 
the sides of the town have been swelled by numerous 
houses, shops and villas. The introduction of cotton- 
weaving into Maybole in the eighteenth century 
occasioned a vast increase of the population, by the 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 23 

rapid influx of Irish families; and it may be said 
to have wholly lost that aristocratic character, the 
decline of which Abercrummie deplores even in his 
time. 

Kilhenzie Castle was even within recent years the 
most entire of all the baronial ruins in the parish of 
Maybole. The first of the Bairds of Kilhenzie of whom 
anything is known was Gilbert Barde, who obtained 
a charter for land in Kilhenzie, Kilkerane and Maker- 
tinstoun, from King James IV, January 2(3, 1506. He 
appears to have been the I^aird of Kilhenzie who was 
slain in a feud fight by Schaw, of Keirs, and others, in 
1508. He was succeeded by his son, John Barde, of 
Kilhenzie, who had a charter of the lands of Drum- 
bane, etc., from King Jaines X, December 17, 1526. 
His wife was Margaret Crawford. He had two sons, 
Robert Barde, his heir, and Gilbert Barde. Gilbert 
Barde, the younger son, who died July 25, 1577, 
obtained a Crown charter of the lands of Glencapok, 
June 14, 1541. He married Christine Lindsay and 
had two sons, John and William. 

Robert Barde, son and heir of " Johanni Barde de 
Kilquhenzie, et Margaretae Craufurde, ejus sponsae," 
inarried Elizabeth Kennedy. He had a son, John 
Barde, who died in April, 1597. He had a Crown 
Charter of conflrmation of the lands of Glengappok, 
Kilquhynnze, etc., from Queen Mary, October 2, 1559. 
He was twice married. The name of his first wife has 
not been ascertained. His second wife was Katharine 
Kennedy, a sister of the Laird of Bargany, by whom 
he had no children. By his first marriage he had two 
sons, Oliver Barde, his heir, and John Barde, who was 



24 THE BARD FAMILY 

concerned with Hugh Kennedy, of Blairquhan, in the 
slaughter of the Provost of Wigton, in 1611. 

Ohver Barde, son of John Barde, of Kilhenzie, who 
died between 1616 and 1619, had a charter of confir- 
mation of the hinds of Glencapok, Kilquhynnze, etc., 
October 21, 1585. He appears in the Criminal Trials 
as one of the supporters of the Earl of Cassilis, in the 
Carrick feuds, in 1611. Indeed, he was the cause of 
one of the bitterest of these family feuds. His father 
had left his second wife "sumwittuell," which the 
young Laird of Kilhenzie took " fra hir perforce." She 
complained of this injustice to her brother, the Laird 
of Bargany, who sent his son and ten or twelve horse 
and '"brak the zett, and tuik alse meikill wituell with 
thame, as was reft fra hir and hir seruand." As Barde 
was a dependent of the Earl of Cassilis, ''my Lord 
thocht the samin done to him," and being in IVIaybole 
at a funeral, he resolved to proceed to Bargany that 
night, and take as much victual out of it ; he ha^ ing 
as he said, "brocht hame with him, out of Ittally, 
poutthard, quhilk wald blaw up the zett ! " He was, 
however, dissuaded from the enterprise, as Bargany's 
people would in all probability be on the alert, and 
began to devise " with sum of his freindis how to ruitt 
out this Hous of Bargany out of memory." He first 
contemplated securing admission into the place of 
"Arstensar" through the treachery of a servant, and 
after slaying all within, "to blaw up the hous in the 
air." The tutor. Sir Thomas Kennedy, of Culzean, 
did not relisli such an open, wholesale mode of going 
to work; for, said he, "the auld laird and the young 
lady lies bene honorabill houshaldris all their dayis, 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 25 

and they wald be grittly lanientit be all men; and 
the young laird had now marevitt his wyfF out of the 
kingis hous, and hir deathe wold be thocht mekill off 
be the king and queine; and also the deid wold be 
thocht werry crewall, to put sa many innocent saullis 
to deathe!" It was accordingly proposed to abduct 
the young Laird of Bargany and his brother, so that 
the old laird would die of sorrow because he would 
have "nane to succeed to him but Benand, quha is ane 
deboishit man." The feud resulted in much violence, 
but in the end the king interposed and a truce was 
patched up. Oliver Barde married and had a son, 
Gilbert Bard, who is mentioned as one of the assize 
on a criminal trial in 1619. 

After the death of Oliver Barde, Kilhenzie was 
acquired by Alexander Kennedy, of Craigoch. 

Gilbert Barde, son of Oliver, was the last Baird of 
Kilhenzie. The name is still prevalent in Maybole 
and vicinity, — the remains of the Carrick sept of the 
Bardes. It is a form of that of Bard. Even to this 
day Kilhenzie Castle is the most entire of baronial 
ruins in the parish of Maybole ; it is delightfully situ- 
ated on a gentle, rising ground^ washed by a little 
rivulet to the south of Maybole. It was noted for its 
good buildings, gardens and orchards. Some geneal- 
ogists trace the Bairds of Kilhenzie to the Bards of 
North Kelsey, in Lincolnshire, England, but it is 
likely that they were of the same stock as the Bairds 
of Auchmedden. Indeed, the inference seems almost 
irresistible that the Bairds of Scotland and Ireland 
are all descended from Hugo de Barde, or Baird, the 
witness of the safe-conduct of King William, the Lion. 



V 



^■^ HE two chief Baird families of Scotland — those 
-*- of Auchmedden and Kilhenzie — beyond doubt 
had a numerous progeny of whom our knowledge is 
only fragmentary. Through the indices of the Scot- 
tish Public Records the naine is sprinkled with great 
profusion. At Aberdeen, July 30, 1548, Alexander 
Barde and Patrick Bisset are described in the law 
Latin of the period as "serjandos et officiarios in ea 
causa specialiter constitutos." The name of Joh. Bard, 
with others of Symonton, is found among the names 
of Assize, April 30, 1550. In a charter of confirma- 
tion to "William, Lord I^ivingston et Agneto Flem- 
yng, his spouse," October 1, 1553, are the names of 
Tho. Bard, Wil Bard, David Bard, Jonet Bard and 
Wedo Bard. Alexander Barde, as a witness in a 
deed of confirmation at Kinlos, February 20, 1575, is 
described as "vicario de Alter." A charge was made 
in April, 1594, against Gilbert Baird, of Auchmed- 
den, George, his brother, Patrick Baird, Johnne Baird, 
James Baird and Alexander Baird, for a systematic 
course of acts of Appression. In the index to the 
Register of Privy Council of Scotland, 1592 99, are 
the names of George Baird, burgess of Banff; George 
Baird, in Swanford; Patrick Baird, writer in Ordin- 
huiff; Walter Baird, in Banff; Walter Baird, in 
Ordinhaus, and Thomas Baird, of the Shaws. In 
another document of the same period these names are 
still further illuminated. This is the registration by 

(^6) 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 27 

Mr. Robert Lermont as procurator, January 22, 
1598-99, of the bond of Gilbert Baird, of Auchmed- 
den, for Walter Baird, of Ordenhuiffis, and Alexander 
Anderson, servant to Alex. Barclay, burgess. Wit- 
ness, George Baird, in Swamfuord, Patrick Baird, 
writer hereof, servant to the said Walter. At Edin- 
burgh, October 26, 1599, Robert Bard and others 
were bound not to harm Andrew Arbuthnot, and 
July 4, 1600, Johnne Baird, in Lochsyde, and Hew 
Baird, his brother, were bound not to harm Johnne 
Wilsoun. In 1601, John Gordon, second son of the 
Earl of Geicght, and his friends, including George 
Baird, came to town of TurrefFand "opprest the haill 
toun." In 1604 there was a Thomas Baird in Edin- 
burgh. It was not until 1607 that a Baird was found 
among the debtors. In that year a decess issued 
against William Baird, on complaint of Alexander 
Murray, of Halherot-kirk for debt. 

At the beginning of the seventeenth century and 
in the last decade of the sixteenth we catch occasional 
glimpses of the Bairds of Ayrshire in the Public 
Records, some of which add to our knowledge of the 
passing of the Bairds of Kilhenzie. In 1600 we find 
the following characteristic entry. 

ACTS OF CAUTION 

Gilbert Ros, provoist of Mayboll for John Kennedy, of 
Baltersan, Oliver Baird, of Kilquhenzie, and Gilbert 
Ferguson, of Balduff; said Ferguson for Patrick Mcll- 
vans, of Grumet, John Corrie, of Kelwode, Hew Kennedy, 
of Carriehorm, for John Dik, of Barbestown, and Walter 
Kennedy, of Knockdone, Oliver Ros in Maybole for 
Hew Kennedy in Danger, Gilbert Kennedy, of Moun- 



28 THE BARD FAMILY 

Linstoun, for Arthour Kennedy in Allendbeuch and John 
Kennedy in Tarborak not to harm John Schaw of Keir 
under the pains following; : Kennedy of Baltersan, John 
Corrie, George Corrie, Kennedy of Cxarnehorne, Kennedy 
of Penquhizzie, Baird of Kikjuhinzie, J2000 marks, each ; 
rest L 1000 each. 

Nearly a century later, in 1692, Archibald Baird, 
an Irish refugee, was imprisoned at Paisley for house- 
breaking. The sheriff thought the probation "scrimp" 
(scanty) and was convinced that extreme poverty had 
been a great temptation to him to commit the crime. 
Seeing, however, that he was a proper young man for 
military service and willing to go over to Flanders to 
fight against the French, the sheriff delayed pronounc- 
ing sentence upon him. The council, without any 
ceremony, ordered that Baird should be transported 
to Flanders as a soldier. At that time it was custo- 
mary for prisoners confined in the Scottish jails to 
purchase their liberty by enlistment. Young Baird 
evidently thought it was preferable to be shot in the 
Low Countries than to be hanged in the Lowlands. 

Besides the Bards of Auchmedden and the Bardes 
of Kilhenzie, there are many early Bards, Bardes and 
Bairds that the data gathered for this compilation 
leaves unplaced. Among these was one Robert Baird 
or Bard, who is mentioned in the Chartulary of Pais- 
ley, in 1238, of whom nothing definite is known. 
There is also extant a charter granted by King Rob- 
ert Bruce to Robert Baird in 1310, upon the barony 
of Cambusnethan. This was, perhaps, the Robert 
Bard whose name was on "The Ragman's Roll," and 
who was executed by King Edward II. Mr. Nisbet 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 29 

^ays that the estate went to Sir Alexander Stuart, 
afterwards of Darnley who married the heiress, Jean 
Baird, about 1360, and that in 1390 he gave it to Sir 
Thomas Somerville, of Carnwath, who married his 
daughter. Sir Thomas Somerville was the ancestor of 
Lord Somerville. In Dalrymple's Collections it is 
said that Baird of Carnwath, in Clydesdale, Coimty 
of Lanark, with other three or four gentlemen of that 
name, being convicted of a conspiracy against Robert 
Bruce, in a Parliament held at Perth, were forfeited 
and put to death, and the lands of Carnwath given to 
Sir Alexander Stuart of Darnley by that Prince. 

The Exchequer Rolls show that in 1393-95 one 
William Bard paid a large sum of money for a debt 
of the King for furnishing supplied at Perth. At the 
same period Richard Bard, clerk of Liverance, whose 
name in Latin is given as Ricardo de Bard, attests to 
the grinding of wheat and malt by baillies of Perth, 
and also to the payment of money for hire at the 
King's larder at Perth. In 1394 he received money 
to pay the King's officers and was paid for services to 
the King and for expenses at Scone and Perth at the 
Exchequer and Council. In 1380 Sir Alexander de 
Bard received payments of money upon the order of 
the Earl of Strathern. The name of Barde or Baird 
also appears in connection with the charters of the 
Abbey of Crosraguel. Gilbert Baird, of Kilhenzie, 
was a witness to a gift by Quinton, the abbot, to the 
Earl of Cassilis, May 19, 1548. The name of Jacobo 
Bard is found in a precept by Colin, abbot of Crosra- 
guel, relating to the lands of Alticapeand, August 29, 
1490. In 1573, Mathow Baird was sheriff of Ayr. 



30 THE BARD FAMILY 

Among the later descendants of the ancient family 
of Baird or Bard we have fragmentary genealogies of 
the Bairds of Lochwood, of Stichill and Strichen, of 
Closeburn, and of Cowdam. 

Alexander Baird of Lochwood, in Lanarkshire, by 
his wife, Jane INJoffat, had three sons: 

I. John Baird (died in 1870) of Urie and Loch- 
wood, married Margaret Findlay, daughter of John 
Findlay, of Springhill, Lanark; they had issue: 

1. Alexander (born in 1849) of Urie and Rickarton, 
Kincardineshire, was educated at Harrow. He is J. P. 
and D. L. for the county of Kincardine, and Lord of 
the barony of L^rie. He married in 1873, Annette 
Maria Palk, daughter of Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart.; they 
have issue: John Lawrence, b. in 1874. 

2. John (born in 1852), of Lochwood, Lanarkshire, 
and Knoydart, Inverness-shire, was educated at Harrow 
and Christ College, Oxford. He inherited Knoydart 
from his uncle, James Baird of Cambusdoon, in 1876. 
He is J. P. for the county of Inverness. Mr. Baird mar- 
ried in 1878, Constance Emilia Harford, daughter of 
John Battersby Harford, Blaise Castle, Gloucester- 
shire, England ; they had issue : James Alexander, b. in 
1879. 

II. William Baird, of Elie, was J. P. for Elie and 
M. P. for Falkirk, 1841-47. He married and had 
issue : 

1. William (born in 1848), of Elie, is lord of the bar- 
onies of Elie, Fifeshire, ^c. He inherited the fine estate 
of his uncle, James Baird of Cambusdoon. 

2. Jane, married in 1862, Captain James George 
Baird-Hay, of Belton. 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 31 

III. James Baird (bom in 1803— died in 1876), 
was J. P. of Cambusdoon and Auchmedden, and 
M. P. for Falkirk. In 1852 he bought a fine property 
composed chiefly of the lands of Greenfield, originally 
purchased from the town of Ayr by Elias Cathcart, 
ancestor of Lord Alloway. I^ater he acquired the 
lands of Middle Auchindraine from Mr. Cathcart. 
He built a neat Gothic church on the opposite side of 
the road from old Kirl Alloway. Mr. Baird married 
(1), in 1852, Charlotte Lockhart, daughter of Robert 
Lockhart; (2), in 1859, Isabella Agnew Hay, daughter 
of Rear- Admiral James Hay. He had no issue. 

BAIRDS OF STICHILL AND STRICKEN 

George Baird (died in 1870), of Stichill and 
Strichen, Aberdeenshire, married Cecilia Hatton, 
daughter of Captain Villiers Francis Hatton ; they 
had issue : 

1. George Alexander, born in 1861. 
BAIRD OF CLOSEBURN 

Douglas Baird (died in 1854), of Closeburn, Duni- 
frieshire, married Charlotte Acton, daughter of Henry 
Acton ; they had issue, twin daughters : 

1. Jane Isabella, married in 1869, Frederick Ernest 

Villiers. 

52. Charlotte Marion, married in 1869, Viscount Cole. 

BAIRDS OF COWDAM 

William Baird, previous to 1700, owned the small 
property of Cowdam or Coodam, in the parish of 
Symington, Ayrshire. The original grantee of the 



32 THE BARD FAMILY 

lands of the town of Symon, Symonstoun, was 
Syinon Locard, in 1161. He also owned a manor of 
the same name in Lanarkshire. William Baird of 
Cowdam, had sasine of several houses in Kilmarnock, 
July 7, 1704, and Margaret Aird, his wife, had sasine 
in liferent of an annuity of 20 lb. furth of the lands 
of Barwhillan, August 80, 1706, and of an annuity of 
^120 Scots, furth of the lands of Prestwick-Shaws, 
November 28, 1707. Besides, William Baird and his 
wife Margaret had sasine in liferent of the two merk 
land of Helentown Mains, March 25, 1709. William 
and JNIargaret Baird had issue : 

1. Adam, (living in 1734), had fie in the two merk 
land of Helentoun Mains, and he obtained sasine of 
houses and yards in Kilmarnock, as eldest son of Wil- 
liam Baird, of Cowdam, deceased, February 4, 1710; 
he also had sasine of the lands of Over and Nether 
Cowdam, August 19, 1712. 

2. William, had the annuity of the lands of Barwhil- 
lan, etc., in fee. 

3. John, had the annuity of the lands of Prestwick- 
Shaws, in fie. 

4. Helen, had sasine in liferent of certain sums furth 
of the lands of Crossflatt, May 24, 1700. 



1 



VI 



^X^HE names Barde and Bard, later Baird and 
-*- Beard, though transplanted to England and 
Scotland in the Middle Ages, like that of many of the 
Bard families in America, are of Huguenot, German, 
and perhaps even Italian origin. Indeed, it was from 
the Society of the Bardi of Florence, that King 
Edward II borrowed the money required for carrying 
on the Scotch war. For the reimbursement of these 
loans Doffus de Bard, in 1316, obtained an order to 
Collectors of custom of wool, hides and wool pelts in 
Port of London to pay them'" the King's merchants " 
1600 pounds from the increment or 10 shillings on 
each sack of wool, 10 shillings on each last of 
hides and 10 shillings on every 300 wool fells 
exposed by alien merchants and of the increment of 
half a mark on eacli sack of wool, half a mark on 
each last of hide and one-half mark on every 
300 wool fells exported by native merchants as the 
King owes the said merchants great sums of money. 
This DofFus is frequently mentioned; even the 
Abbot of Grymmesby owed him money. In 1330, 4 
Edward III, there is acknowledgment of the King's 
indebtedness to Bartholomew de Barde and other 
merchants of the Society of the Bardi of various 
loans, with provision for repayment, including the 
King's moiety of the first year's collection of a four- 
yearly tenth imposed by the Pope on the Clergy of 
England, Ireland and Wales. The same year at the 

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34 THE BARD FAMILY 

King's request Barde and his associates loaned money 
to Roger de Morton JNIari, earl of March, in aid of 
the marriage of his daughter with the eldest son of 
Thomas, Earl of Norfolk and INIarshall of England, 
with promise to pay the same a fortnight after Easter. 
In the period covered by llymer's " Foedera" the 
names of Barde and Baird are common in the court 
records. In 1317, Edmund Baird, among others, was 
pardoned by King Edward II for killing Pierce 
Gaveston. This Gaveston was a foreigner, sprung 
from a family of Guienne, who was young Edward's 
friend and companion during his father's reign, but 
had been banished for his share in intrigues that 
divided Edward from his son. Gaveston was recalled 
upon the new King's ascension, created Earl of Corn- 
wall, and placed at the head of administration. Gay, 
genial and tliriftless, he had the wit, audacity and 
recklessness of the Gaul. He goaded the baronage 
with taunts and defiances. In his reckless speech the 
Earl of I^ancaster was " the Actor," Pembroke, '' the 
Jew," and Warwick, "the Black Dog." The taunts 
and defiance of the bold favorite of a weak king 
hurled against a strong baronage could not last, and 
after a few months of power Gaveston was again 
banished, only to be recalled by the King and be- 
headed on Blacklow Hill by a party under the 
"Black Dog" of Warwick, of which Baird was one. 
This Edmund Baird or Bard, it may be assumed, was 
the ancestor of the Bards of North Kelsey, and from 
his attitude toward Elizabeth Bard, widow of Robert, 
he was probably of the same stock as the Bards of 
Banff and the Bairds of Auchmedden. 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 35 

Another Bard, who was a man of some import- 
ance during the reign of Edward II, was Nicholas 
Barde, baihfFof Sandwich in 1315. He married Joan, 
the coheiress of Margaret, the wife of Robert de 
Methele. Other Enghsh Bards continued to take 
part in affairs both at home and abroad. In 1318, 
Simon Baird was given a commission to levy men for 
the war against Scotland. Among the Seneschals 
recognized by King Richard II in his French prov- 
inces in 1388 were the Sieur de la Barde and his lieu- 
tenants for the March of Agenoys and Guertyn. 
Apart from the possible progeny of I^e Seigneur de 
Barde, who accompanied the Conqueror into Eng- 
land, and of Walter de Barde, of the county of 
Devon, who was one of the volunteers in the expedi- 
tion of Thomas of Lancaster to Ireland in 1403, the 
English province of Bourdeaux, as it then was, was 
full of Bardes, who acknowledged allegiance to the 
Plantagenet Kings of England. In 1408, Leonard 
Baird, bastard son of Sir Anthony de Baird, both liv- 
ing in Bourdeaux, was granted letters of legitimaza- 
tion by King Henry IV, under the Great Seal at 
Westminister. Bos de la Barde, Esquire, had a grant 
of dwelling houses in the city of Bourdeaux from 
Henry lY, the sale of which to John Dupont was 
confirmed by Thomas Duke of Clarence, in 1412. 
Robert Barde was named in a commission of arroy 
for Estrythyngem, a part of the county of York, by 
King Henry VI, March 11, 1427. Numerous as were 
the French Bardes with English affiliations, a glance 
at the genealogy of the Bards of Lincolnshire will 
show, however, that their progenitor, if not Saxon, 



36 THE BARD FAMILY 

must have come to England with the Conqueror. 
Clarenceux derives the pedigree from Edmond Bard, 
of Barforth. 

Adam Bard, great-great-grandson of Edmond, as 
shown by the accompanying pedigree, married the 
daughter and heiress of Dampeur, of North Kelsey, 
Lincolnshire, and acquired the Dainpeur estate in 
right of his wife, which was afterward for many cen- 
turies the principal seat of the Bards of North Kel- 
sey. From Adam Bard the direct line of the Bards 
of North Kelsey was continued unbroken and with- 
out any off-shoots, so far as is known, through five 
generations to Thomas Bard, who was married to 
Eleanor Hansard, daughter of Sir Richard Hansard, 
of Kelsey, Knt. Thomas Bard, by his wife Eleanor 
Hansard, had three sons, Ralph, his heir, Robert, and 
Thomas, and a daughter Alice, who was married to 
j John Trowsd ale. 

Ralph Bard, son and heir of Thomas Bard and 
Eleanor Hansard, his wife, was married to Ellen 
Mussenden, daughter of John JNIussenden, and 
ainong other children, had \^'^illiam Bard, his heir. 
This William Bard, who died in 1580, was married 
to Ellen JNliddleton, daughter of Thomas Middleton, 
of Wintringham, County Lincoln, and had a son and 
heir, Ralph Bard, and a daughter Frances, who was 
married to William Roche, of Bresby, Lincolnshire. 
Ralph Bard, son and heir of AVilliam Bard and Ellen 
Middleton, his wife, who was born in 1562, married 
Margaret Gilby, daughter of George Gilby, of Staun- 
ton in the Hold, County Lincoln. He was the father 
of nine children: Thomas Bard, his heir; George 



CHART OF THE EARLY BARDS OF NORTH KELSEY 
Edmond Bard, of Barforth 

I 

Alexander, married , daughter of John Brigvield 

I 

John, married , daughter of Sir John Brough, Knt. 

I 

Gosling, married , daughter of Thomas Denby 

I 

Adam, married , daughter of Dampeur 

I 

Adam, married , daughter of John Derby 

I 

Thomas, married Margaret, daughter of John Yardborough 

I 

John, married Elizabetli, daughter of William Dallison 

I 

John, married , daughter of John Heneage 

I 

Thomas, married Eleanor, daughter of Sir Richard Hansard 



Ralph Alice 

Married Ellen, daugh- Married John T rowsdale 

ter of John Mus- 
senden 



William (\ vSO 

Married Ellen, daughter of 
Thomas Middleton 



Ralph Frances 

Married Margaret, Married William 

daughter of George Roche 
Gilby 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 37 

Bard, who came to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1593 ; 
John Bard, twin brother of George; Wilham Bard, 
known as Wilham Bard of Talbygath, County I^in- 
coln; Edward Bard; Ehzabeth Bard, married 
Thomas Code, of Castor, County Lincoln ; Susan 
Bard, married Richard Beason, of North Kelsey ; 
Ann Bard, married Richard Batem; and Magdalen 
Bard. Thomas Bard, of North Kelsey, son and heir 
of Ralph Bard and Margaret Gilby, his wife, came 
to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1591. He was married 
to Elizabeth Rossiter, of Somerby, and had two sons, 
Richard Bard, who was killed in Fleet street, Lon- 
don, November 8, 1624, in his ITtli year, and Wil- 
liam Bard. This William Bard, who was born Sep- 
tember 26, 1615, and died February 5, 1639 40, suc- 
ceeded his brother, Richard Bard, as heir of the 
estate of North Kelsey. He was married to Eliza- 
beth Grazebrook, daughter of Rowland Grazebrook 
and Sibilla Yardley, his wife. She was baptized 
October 2, 1608. William and Elizabeth Bard had 
an only son, William Bard, who was born in 1636. 

Robert Bard, of Tevelby, i. e. Tealby, second son 
of Thomas Bard and Eleanor Hansard, his wife, died 
in 1537. His will was dated February 10, 1536-37, 
and proved April 24, 1537. He was married and had 
a son, John Bard, of Tevelby and Ladford, who died 
October 18, 1565, leaving no children, and two 
daughters, Joan Bard (born in 1529), married Richard 
Osney, of Willingham, and Isabella Bard, (born in 
1531), who married Joland. 

Thomas Bard, youngest son of Thomas Bard and 
Eleanor Hansard, liis wife, died in 1544. He was 



38 THE BARD FAMILY 

supervisor of his brother Robert's will. His own will 
was dated May 23, 1544, and proved July 28, 1544, 

He was married to Alison , who survived him. 

He was the father of seven children: Thomas, Mary, 
Agnes, Christopher, Helen, Margaret and William. 
Christopher Bard, son of Thomas and Alison Bard, 
who died in 1586, was owner of Tealby Grange. He 
was sometime partial of the Priory of Sixhills, w^hich 
he settled on his son Richard, JNIarch 2, 1585 86. 
His will was dated March 13, 1585-86, and proved 

May 6, 1586. He was married to Adrian , 

and had issue: George, Christopher, Simon. Richard 
and Elizabeth, who married Clark. 

George Bard, the eldest son of Christopher and 
Adrian Bard, of Tealby Grange, was vicar of Staines, 
in County Middlesex. He died in 1616. His will 
was dated October 16, 1615, and proved August 24, 
1616. Rev. George Bard was married to Susan 
Dudley, daugliter of John Dudley, of London, who 
survived him; their children were: William Bard, an 
apprentice in 1615; Maximilian Bard, later of Ham- 
mersmith, County Middlesex; George Bard, living in 
1615 ; Henry Bard, Viscount Bellamont; and Margaret 
and Elizabeth Bard, both living in 1615. 

Richard Bard, youngest son of Christopher and 
Adrian Bard on whom Iiis father settled Tealby 
Grange, was born in 1581. He Mas married June 5, 
1621 (lie.) to Margaret Ee I^ee, of Walesbury; they 
had two sons in 1627: Francis Bard and Christopher 
Bard. 

Maximilian Bard, son of the Rev. (ieorge Bard, 
vicar of Staines, County Middlesex, and Susan Dud- 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 39 

ley, his wife, was born in 1606, and died February 16, 
1690-91. He is generally described as of Hammer- 
smith, County ^liddlesex. and was a citizen and 
girdler of London. His house and shop at Cheapside 
was held of the Goldsmiths' Company and called 
the three "Black Birds." He was lord of tlie manors 
of Caversfield. Bucks, and Pallenswick. in P^ulham, 
^Middlesex. His estate was valued at ^40.000. His 
will was dated March 26, 1689, and proved October 
8, 1690. He was acti^'e in behalf of the Crown early 
in the civil strife that resulted in the dethronement 
and execution of King Charles I. An ordinance of 
both Houses of Parliament, dated November 17, 
1641, empowered him. with others, to take and seize 
horses: this was revoked July 25, 1642. but in Sep- 
tember following he was appointed by tlie I^ords 
and Commons to purchase horses for one thousand 
dragoons, raised to suppress the malignants in Lan- 
cashire. Tn December. 1642, with others, he signed 
a petition to the House of Commons seeking Col- 
onel Lunsford's removal from his post of I^ieutenant 
of the Tower. In 1650, he purchased the manor of 
Pallenswick, in Fulham. and in 1653, the manor of 
Caversfield. in Bucks. His epitaph in Ca^■ersfield 
Church, on a black marble in the pavement, is as 
follows : '• Here lyeth the Body of Maximilian Bard, 
Esquire, who deceased the 16th day of February, in 
the year of our Lord 1690, in the 85th year of his 
age." Mr. Bard was twice married. He was married 
(1), at Hackney, September 10, 1632, to Margaret 
Strange, probably a sister of his second wife, and 
(2). to Sarah Strange, living in 1691, daughter of 



40 THE BARD FAMILY 

John Strange, of London. To his second wife he 
gave lands in Muswell Hill, parish of Bonetall, 
County Bucks, in lieu of dower for life, and also in 
Caversfield, Bucks. His children were all of the 
first marriage. Thomas Bard, of Hammersmith, and 
afterwards of Caversfield and Fox-cote Manor-house 
by Buckingham, eldest son of Maximilian and Mar- 
garet Bard, was born in 1636. He Mas married (1), 

to Mary , and had a son, Samuel Bard, who 

was baptized at Hammersmith, October 29, 1668, 
and was buried there, April 19, 1669. By a second 
marriage, he had a son, George Bard, who was liv- 
ing in 1704. William Bard, the second son of Maxi- 
milian and Margaret Bard, was born in 1640, and 
died in 1695. He was of St. John's, Hackney, and a 
citizen and girdler of London. His will was dated 
December 17, 1694, and proved April 24, 1695. He 

was married to Rebecca , who survived 

him, by whom he had two sons, Maximilian and 
Thomas, and two daughters, INIary and Sarah, all 
living in 1687. Another son of Maximilian and 
Margaret Bard was Nathaniel Bard, of Caversfield, 
who married his cousin, Persiana Bard, daughter of 
Viscount Bellamont; they had a son, William Bard, 
who died without issue and a daughter, Sarah Frances 
Bard, (buried at Albury, November 7, 1764), who 
married Henry Harcourt, Esq., (buried November 
9, 1743), of Pendley, in Albury, Herts. Her son, 
Richard Bard Harcourt, went to Ireland and settled 
in County Antrim. Other children of Maximilian 
and Margaret Bard were Christopher Bard, who was 
matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, Decem- 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 41 

be,r 9, 1658; Joseph Bard, baptized at St. Peter's, 
Clieapside, London, October 9, 1646, and Elizabeth 
Bard, baptized at St. Peter's, March 30, 1649. 

Henry Bard, a younger son of the Rev. George 
Bard, of Staines, and Susan Dudley, his wife, was 
born about 1607, and died in 1660. He was a fel- 
low and D. C. L. of King's College, Cambridge. 
During the civil commotions of the reign of Charles 
I, he was a colonel in the royal army. Colonel Bard 
was knighted by his royal master, November 22, 
1643 ; created a baronet, October 6, 1644 ; and made 
Baron Bard, of Drombey, and \^iscount Bellamont 
in the peerage of Ireland, July 8, 1646. His lord- 
ship, proceeding on an embassy from Charles II, 
then in exile, to the court of Persia, was overtaken 
by a whirlwind in that coinitry and choked by the 
sand; the melancholy event occurred in the year 
1660, when all his honours, including the baronetcy, 
expired. Lord Bellamont was married in 1645, to 
Anne Gardyner, daughter of Sir William Gardyner, 
Knt., of Peckham, Surrey. She died in St. Martin's 
in the Fields, in London, in 1668. Lord Bellamont 
had one son, Charles Rupert Bard, who was born 
January 1, 1647-48, and died in 1665, and was the 
second \^iscount Bellamont. He was slain on the 
Island of St. Christopher. Leaving no issue, the 
peerage expired with him. Besides his heir, the first 
Viscoimt Bellamont was survived by three daughters, 
Anne, Frances and Persiana Bard. By some gene- 
alogists Anne Bard, of whom nothing definite is 
known, has been confounded with her sister Frances. 
Frances Bard was privately married, it is alleged, to 



42 THE BARD FAMILY 

Prince Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, and 
Duke of Cumberland, who died November 27, 1682. 
In his will, dated two days before his death, he 
mentions his " natural son," Dudley Bard, who was 
killed at Buda, July 13, 1686, aged about twenty 
years. Persiana Bard, as already noted, married her 
cousin, Nathaniel Bard, of Caversfield. 

Arms of the Rev. George Bard, of Staines. 
Or, three lions passant, Az. within a bordure of the 
same. 

Arms of Maximilian Bard, Hammersmith. 
Gu., two lions passant Or, within a bordure engr. Az. 

Arms of Viscount Bellamont. 
Sa. on a chevron, between ten martlets ar., five plates. 



VII 



A CI^RIOUS example of composite genealogy 
-^-^^ was exhibited a few years ago by a New York 
pretender to extraordinary familiarity with the par- 
ish registers of Great Britain and Ireland, who pieced 
together selected names and dates from three of the 
foregoing families, — the Bairds of Auchmedden, the 
Bardes of Kilhenzie and the Bards of North Kelsey, 
— creating a fictitious pedigree that had all the marks 
of historical interest and accuracy. Beginning with 
the sev en generations of the descendants of Edmond 
Bard, of Barforth, as a foundation, he inserted an 
alleged Gilbert Bard into the Family Tree of the 
Bards of North Kelsey, Lincolnshire, England, and at 
the chronological moment transplanted him to Scot- 
land to become the putative founder of the Bardes 
of Kilhenzie, Maybole, Ayrshire. After this deft 
union of the two families, which required little more 
than a stroke of his pen, it was easy going for this 
accomplished genealogist until he came to the third 
and last Gilbert Barde of that ilk. Coming to the 
end of that line, he accepted a hint from the geneal- 
ogist of the Bairds of Auchmedden, and at the 
chronological moment sent the children of the last 
of the Bardes of Kilhenzie to Ireland to establish a 
family for which he gives authorities that are faulty 
and in many cases do not exist at all. A brief sum- 
mary of the vital part of this "History," so called, 
cannot fail to prove interesting by showing the bold 

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44 THE BARD FAMILY 

forgeries to which some genealogists resort in sup- 
plying their customers with what they sell as 
authentic information. 



A HOME-MADE GENEALOGY 

Gilbert Bard, son of Oliver Barde, of Kilhenzie, married 
circa 1600, Lillias ; they had issue: 

1. Richard, (II). 

2. 'Archibald, went to Ireland with his brother, Richard. 

3. I.illias, went to Ireland with her brothers, Richard 
and Archibald. 

II. Richard Bard, putative son of Gilbert and Lillias 
Bard, went to Ireland, and, with his brother Archibald 
and sister Lillias, settled near Tara, Co. Meath, a few 
years previous to his marriage. He is mentioned in 
1683, in "Inquisitiones ad Capellum Scotiae" as late 
of Kilhenzie, son of Gilbert Bard and Lillias, his wife. 
Richard Bard married in 1680, Mai-<i^aret Kennedy, of 
Kilhenzie, Ayr, Scotland; they had issue: 

1. Richard. 

2. Archibald, (III). 

3. Gilbert, married and had issue. 

4. Bernard, died in 1714, s. p. 

III. Archibald Bard, (born near Tara, Co. Meath, Ire- 
land, July 9, 1680), son of Richard Bard and Mar- 
garet Kennedy, his wife, married April IT, 1707, 
Olivia Parker, daughter of Bernard Parker and Olivia 
Polsagh (Polsagh Coll. X, 74, 92), and they had issue: 

1. Bernard, (IV). 

2. Archi})ald, (V). 

3. Olivia, (born September 9, 1711), married Samuel 
Robinson, and had issue. 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 45 

Mem. — Olivia Bard, a widow, executed a deed in 1738, 
in which she gave all her Cattell and Chattels to her 
youngest son, Archibald; "My eldest son, Barnard, 
now in Pennsylvania." (P. C. M. 43, 82). 

IV. Bernard Bard (born near Tara, Co. Meath, Ireland, 
June 3, 1708), putative son of Archibald Bard and 
Olivia Parker, his wife, emigrated to Pennsylvania in 
1737, settling on Carroll's tract, York, now Adams Co., 
where he built a mill. He married in Ireland, March 6, 
1734, Martha McDowell, daughter of James McDowell, 
who emigrated to Pennsylvania with his daughter Jane 
and son James, in 1737 (McDowell Coll. B. 23, and 
Rec. of Presbytery). Bernard Bard and Martha Mc- 
Dowell, his wife, had issue: 

1. Richard (born Jan. 5, 1735), came over with his 
father in 1737, aged 2, his mother having died in 
childbirth, March 19, 1735. 

V. Archibald Bard (born near Tara, Co. Meath, Ire- 
land, March 14, 1709), putative son of Archibald 
Bard and Olivia Parker, married Sarah McCabe; they 
had issue. 

1. Bernard, born March 15, 1735; died young. 

2. Richard, born Feb. 8, 1736. 

The interest attaching to this fictitious genealogy 
is not in its fraudulent character so much as in the 
sources from which its names were drawn. Gilbert, 
w^ith which it begins, was a name frequently used in 
the ancient sept of the Bardes of Maybole. It was 
introduced because it represented the first and last of 
the Bardes of Kilhenzie. Only an assumption was 
necessary to link it to the earlier generations of the 
Bards of North Kelsey. The last mention of the last 
Gilbert Barde in known records was in 1619. Accord- 



46 THE BARD FAMILY 

ingly, it seemed as if our constructive genealogist 
missed the chronological moment in not sending him 
and his sons to Ireland in the wake of the servitors in 
the Plantation of Ulster, instead of detaining them in 
obscurity in Maybole for sixty years after the pos- 
session of Kilhenzie had gone to Alexander Kennedy, 
of Craigock. It is not worth while, however, to 
lament this poetic fault, because another sixty years 
elapsed after the supposed settlement of Richard 
and Archibald Bard, sons of Gilbert, in Ireland, 
before there is mention of a Gilbert Baird in the 
Record Office, Dublin. This was in the administra- 
tion on the estate of Gilbert Baird, of Rashee, or 
Ballynashee, Co. Antrim, January 20, 1741. 

The unusual juxtaposition of Richard and Archi- 
bald as names of the sons of a Scotch laird was due 
to exigencies that confronted the genealogist in find- 
ing acceptable ancestors for an ^Vmerican family. 
The juxtaposition actually existed in the names of 
father and son on an American plantation, in 1741. 
It was not difficult for an imaginative genealogist 
to make them equally apposite at Kilhenzie and at 
Tara, in 1(380. If this compiler of genealogies war- 
ranted to fit the needs of every customer had actually 
known the names of the father and grandfather of 
Archibald Bard, the first of the name to emigrate 
from Ireland to Pennsylvania, he might still have 
clung to the Kilhenzie stock, but he would have 
substituted William and David for his first Archi- 
bald and Bernard. With his facility for fictitious 
dates as applied to real names he would have been 
fully as successful in imposing upon himself, at 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 47 

least, as he was in his own mind in building a 
genealogical structure with Bards that never ex- 
isted. It may be doubted, however, that he would 
have attempted to include any of the real Bards, 
Bairds, or Beards of Ireland in his genealogical 
patchwork. 



VIII 

WHETHER any of the Bards of North Kel- 
sey, of Staines, or of Hammersmith and 
Caversfield, were among the early emigrants to 
America is a problem that is not easily solved 
because of the meagreness of our knowledge of the 
family and its connecting links in the seventeenth 
century, but some fragmentary genealogies that have 
been preserved show that it is not insoluble. One 
Robert Bard, or Beard, died in St. Mary's county, 
JNId., about 1685. In his will, which was dated 
JNIarch 18, 1683, and proved August 7, 1685, he 
left a plantation called "Beard's Choice" to a son 
not named of his brother Christopher, "if he come 
into Maryland within ten years." Of the English 
antecedents of this Bard, or Beard, we have no knowl- 
edge, but he may have been a brother of Christo- 
pher Bard, who was a son of Richard Bard, of Tealby 
Grange. It is also possible that he was a son of 
JNIaximilian Bard, of Hammersmith, and that by his 
brother Christopher was meant that Christopher 
Bard, who was matriculated at A\^adham College, 
Oxford, in 1658. Robert Beard, of St. Mary's, Md., 
left no male issue, and in bequeathing "Beard's 
Choice" to the unnamed son of his brother Chris- 
topher, his purpose evidently was to entice one of 
the name into the province. The bulk of his estate, 
comprising three tracts, "St. ^largaret's Field," "St. 
Margaret's Forest" and "Speedwell," which con- 

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A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 49 

tained 300 acres, went to his grandsons, William 
and Robert INIeakin. In his will, Robert Beard 
named his daughter Margaret, and son-in-law, Wil- 
liam Meakin, as his executors and residuary legatees 
and he also mentioned another daughter, Elizabeth 
Meakin. 

Another early Maryland family that may have 
been allied with the Bards of North Kelsey was 
represented in Anne Arundel county, by Richard 
Beard, before 1654. He became a prominent man 
in the province and was a member of the JNIaryland 
Assembly, 1662-78. His name frequently occurs 
in the proceedings of that body. In May, 1666, he 
was appointed one of a committee to draw up anew 
the act concerning hog-stealers. He served on the 
committee for the re-survey of Anne Arundel county 
and he was also on the committee for the erection 
of a courthouse for the county. For many years 
he was a justice of the peace. Whether he was a 
member of the Society of Friends has not been as- 
certained, but while he was a member of the assem- 
bly he subscribed in behalf of Quaker brethern to 
a Quaker petition for the alteration of the form 
of oath. He died about 1681. His will was dated 
July 24, 1675, and proved August 10, 1681. In 
this instrument he named his wife Rachel, his sons 
Richard and John, and his daughters Ruth, Re- 
becca and Rachel. Richard Beard, son of Richard 
and Rachel Beard, was, like his father, prominent 
in public affairs in Anne Arundel county. He served 
as deputy surveyor of the county of Anne Arundel 
and as one of the county commissioners. He was 



50 THE BARD FAMILY 

also a member of the Maryland Assembly. His two 
sons, Richard and Matthew Beard, are mentioned 
in the will of John Wheeler, of Anne Arundel 
county, in 1684. Other early Beards of the prov- 
ince of Maryland were I^ewis Beard, of Somerset, 
and William Beard, of Dorchester county. None 
of these families have been traced and the few facts 
concerning them that are presented here are given 
merely to show the early appearance of the Beard 
name in the Maryland Archives. 

In the study of the co-related families included 
in this volume the task was rendered exceedingly 
difficult at the outset by certain deeply rooted pre- 
conceptions, that resulted in an erroneous miscon- 
ception as regards the common origin of the early 
Protestant emigrants from Ireland to Pennsylvania. 
This misconception in America is embalmed in the 
compound word Scotch- Irish. As a matter of fact 
many of the early settlers west of the Susquehanna, 
whose descendants are now classed as Scotch-Irish, 
including some of the Presbyterian families, were 
Anglo-Irish, not Scotch. Among these are the 
Bards, of " Carroll's Delight " ; the Butlers, of York 
and Cumberland counties; the Poes, of Baltimore, 
Marsh Creek and the Conococheague ; and the Pot- 
ters, of BroMii's JNIill. The Barde or Beard family 
of Ireland goes back to the time of Queen Elizabeth, 
if not earlier, and the Butlers were there in the thir- 
teenth century. The Bardes, or Beards, of Queen's 
county spring from William Barde, or Beard, who 
was in Ireland under Sir Henry Sidney, Lord 
Deputy, and must have borne an important part in 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 51 

the advance of the Enghsh army from the Pale in 
1557, because as early as 1568, he was granted a 
messuage in Maryborough, comprising seven cot- 
tages; besides 60 acres arrable, and 40 acres pas- 
ture wood and underwood, or 100 acres in all, in 
Colte; and 12 acres arrable, and 4 acres pasture and 
underwood, or 16 acres, in Ballycorballe or Ballicor- 
bett, all in Queen's county. Indeed, Barde may 
have been in Maryborough as early as the reign of 
Philip and Mary. Both the county and assize town 
owe their existence to the Queen and were named 
in her honor. Queen's county was erected from the 
ancient territory of Leix, and Maryborough M^as 
constituted a county and assize town because of its 
central situation, and its proximity to a strong for- 
tress that had been erected to retain this part of the 
country in obedience to the English crown, after its 
reduction by tlie Earl of Sussex, the predecessor of 
Sidney, as Lord Deputy. In 1570 Queen Elizabeth 
granted to the inhabitants of Maryborough a char- 
ter and corporation which conferred upon it the 
privileges enjoyed by those of Naas, Drogheda and 
Dundalk. 

William Barde, of Maryborough, Queen's county, 
Ireland, was apparently a native of England, 
although no proofs have been found that he was of 
the Bards of North Kelsey. He died about 1583, as 
appears from a grant, (under a commission dated 
17th January, 26th Eliz.), to Patrick Crosby, gent., 
of the wardship and marriage of Thomas Beard, son 
and heir of William Beard, late of Colte, in Queen's 
county, and the custody of his lands during his 



52 THE BARD FAMILY 

minority. William Barde, or Beard, married Jane 
Butler, who was probably of the House of Ormond, 
and of the same family as the "fighting Butlers" of 
the Cumberland Valley. 

Thomas Beard, son and heir of William Barde 
and Jane Butler, his wife, died JNIarch 31, 1640. He 
is described in his will, proved April 8, 1640, as of 
Smithstown, County Meath. To him the inlieritance 
of land in and about Maryborough pro\'ed a curse 
in the disguise of a blessing, AVhen his father died 
he was still very young. In 1588, Patrick Crosby, 
gentleman, who seems to have had great facilities 
for getting other people's lands in Ireland, obtained 
a grant from Queen Elizabeth of the wardship and 
marriage of the minor, and the custody of his lands 
during his minority, free of rent, retaining thirty 
shillings a year, and the value of the land for sup- 
port of his ward. Twenty-four years later, in 1()12, 
the heir obtained "Livery of seizin and Pardon of 
Intrusion" for a tine of five pounds. Then came the 
years in which King Charles I was occupied in de- 
vising means to raise money without the aid of Par- 
liament, and the Earl of Strafford, Lord Deputy, was 
working the forfeiture mill for all it was worth for 
his own benefit and the King's. Discoverers with 
eagle eyes, to use the language of the committee 
of the House of Commons of Irehmd to Lord Straf- 
ford, in 1634, in that year found defects in Beard's 
title for the lands of Colte and Corbally, and in 
Maryborough town, and December 3, 1635, he ob- 
tained a warrant for a grant under the Commission 
for the remedy of defective titles, "in accordance 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 53 

with an agreement between said Beard and the Com- 
missioners of the Crown." Previous to the Rebel- 
hon of 1641 lie sold 18f acres of the lands of Colte 
to Pierce Fitzgerald. On the breaking out of the 
war Maryborough was one of the places held by 
the Confederate Catholics; it was seized by Owen 
Roe O'Niel in 1646, but was subsequently retaken 
by Lord Castlehaven, and in 1650 the fortress was 
demolished by the Parliamentarian troops under Col- 
onels Reynolds and Hewson. Fitzgerald forfeited 
his lands after the rebellion, "as an Irish Papist," 
and the title went to Sir Martin Noell, a shrewd 
London scrivener, under the Acts of Settlement, 
1660-70. Thomas Beard married Anne Segrave, 
daughter of Patrick Segrave, of Killiglan, County 
Meath, who was a son of A^^alter Segrave, the an- 
cestor of the Segraves of Cabra, County Dublin. 
Walter Segrave was in Ireland temp, Henry \^III, 
— (1541). Patrick Segrave was one of the influen- 
tial Catholics who attended the great meeting of 
Tara in 1641. Thomas and Anne (Segrave) Beard 
had two sons, Thomas and William, and a daughter, 
Agnes. William Beard died without issue, and 
Agnes Beard married Edmund Archdeacon, who 
was probably of the ancient Irish family of the 
McEUigoths, of County Kerry. In Vol. F 3. 27, 
in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, the 
name of Agnes is given as Rose, and the name of 
the father is given as the third son of Thomas Beard 
of Colkton, in ye Kings county. 

Thomas Beard, of Colte, in Queen's county, son 
of Thomas and Anne (Segrave) Beard, died July 1, 



54 THE BARD FAMILY 

1702. His will was dated May 22, 1702; it was 
proved November 10, 1702. He was buried in the 
parish church of Clonenagh, near his deceased son 
and daughter. He gave six pounds to the poor of 
Clonenagh and Cloneheen which contain the post 
town Mountrath, on the road from Maryborough to 
Roscrea. Mr. Beard married Anne Lpftus, daughter 
of Adam and Dorcas (Crosby) Loftus, who died in 
1732. Adam I^oftus was a son of Thomas Loftus, 
of Killyan, County Meath, and Ellen Hartpole, 
daughter of Robert Hartpole, of Shrule, Queen's 
county, and a grandson of Rev. Adam Loftus, Arch- 
bishop of Dublin, and Jane Purden, his wife. Dor- 
cas Crosby was a daughter of Richard Crosby, of 
Stradbally, Queen's County. Thomas and Anne 
(Loftus) Beard had a daughter, Anne, who was 
married to John Bradshaw. and two sons, William 
and Philip. AVilliam Beard was a captain in J^ord 
Lisburn's regiment of Foot. Lord Lisburn, who was 
a relative of his mother, was killed at the siege of 
Limerick ; it is probable that Captain Beard was 
killed at the same time. He was unmarried. 

Philip Beard, younger son of Thomas and Anne 
(Loftus) Beard, died in 1738. He is described in 
records of his time as Captain Philip Beard, of 
Ballyroan, and was an extensive owner of lands in 
Clonenagh parish, barony of CuUinagh, Queen's 
county. He was married in 1725 to Ellinor Bar- 
rington, daughter of John and Dorcas (Wheeler) 
Barrington, of CuUinagh. Dorcas Wheeler was a 
daughter of Jonah Wheeler, son and heir of Dr. 
Jonah Wheeler, bishop of Ossory, and Dorcas Per- 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 55 

ceval, of the Percevals of Egmont. Captain Philip 
Beard and EUinor Barrington, his wife, had a son 
Arthur and a daughter Dorcas. Dorcas Beard was 
married, in 1759, to AVilliam Burdett, surgeon of 
H. M. ship, "Weigle." Arthur Beard was heuten- 
ant in Colonel Yorke's Regiment of Foot in 1758, 
and the 9th Foot, in 1759. In 1761-63, he was in 
General VYhitmore's regiment. 

A possible son of William Barde, or Beard, and 
Jane Butler, his wife, was Richard Beard, who was 
in the service of Francis Blennerhassett, undertaker 
of 1,500 acres of land in the Barony of Lurg, County 
Fermanagh, about 1630. That Beard was a man of 
consequence is shown by the fact that his arms 
were a sword only. The Blennerhassetts are a fam- 
ily of English or Welsh origin who settled in Ire- 
land in the time of Elizabeth. Thomas Blenner- 
hassett and his son Robert were the first settlers of 
the name in Ireland, where they obtained a part of 
the Earl of Desmond's possessions in County Kerry. 
Thomas, Sir Edmund, Francis and Leonard Blen- 
nerhassett were English undertakers in Lurg and 
Coolmakeran, now the Baronies of Lurg and Coole, 
County Fermanagh. In 1659, Richard Beard, gen- 
tleman, had lands in the Barony of Dartrey, County 
Monaghan, but perhaps, in the parish of Galloon, 
which was partly in the baronies of Knockninny and 
Clankelly, but chiefly in that of Coole, in County 
Fermanagh. This indicates that he was identical 
with the Richard Beard who came to the precinct 
of Lurg with Francis Blennerhassett. The people 
on his estate were elev^en in number. 



56 THE BARD FAMILY 

At a later period, William Barde, or Beard, who 
may have been a grandson of Richard Beard, lived 
at Maguire's Bridge, in Aghalurcher parish. County 
Fermanagh. By his wife Catharine, he had a 
daughter Judith, married to James Guttery, of 
Maguire's Bridge, and a son, Alexander Beard, who 
was married in 1727 to Mary Corry, daughter of 
Robert Corry, of Corlet, in Drummuliy parish, 
County Fermanagh. 



IX 



nr^HE two family names that have been repro- 
-*- duced most frequently among- the descendants 
of Archibald Bard, of " Carroll's Delight," are Rich- 
ard and Archibald. The former is seldom found in 
families of Scotch-Irish descent, while the latter is 
generally restricted to persons of Scotch extraction. 
William is a name common to the English Bardes, 
or Beards, and the Scotch Bairds, but the compiler 
of this history has found Archibald only in the 
family of William Baird, of Grange, in County 
Tyrone. Because Archibald Bard, the ancester of 
the Bards, of the Conococheague, Pa., and of Bards- 
town, Ky., was possibly of this family, what is 
known of the Bairds of Grange is here related. 

The ancestor of the Bairds of Grange was Wil- 
liam Baird. His name appears on the Hearth Money 
Roll for 1666 and another undated Roll on which 
are the names of John Baird of Strabane, John 
Beard of Tatnepoil, and John Berd of Gortevy. 
He lived at Grange, near the Foyle, in the parish 
of Donagheady, barony of Strabane, County Tyrone. 
The greater part of this parish was granted by 
James I, to Sir John Drummond, who founded the 
town of Dunamanagh, where he erected a bawn. 
Grange derived its name from the ancient church 
of Grange, now in ruins, which belonged to the 
Abbey of Derry. Near the ruins is an old grave- 
yard that was the burial-place of the Bairds. There 

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58 THE BAKU FAMILY 

is a number of tombstones to members of the family 
that were erected by Dr. Andrew Baird, surgeon 
R. N., who Hved on the estate called Aughtermoy, 
near Dunamanagh. The Presbyterian Church, to 
which William Baird of Grange probably belonged, 
was known in the Presbyterian records as Dona- 
gheady. John Hamilton was the minister, 1658-88. 
He was at the siege of Derry and was afterward 
minister of a church in Edinburgh. His successor 
was Thomas AVinsley, 1699-1736. From these 
tombstone records it appears that AVilliam Baird, of 
Grange, had, among others, a son, John Baird, who 
was born in 1664, and died February 2, 1748. John 
Baird's tombstone, a fiat slab, is badly broken and 
partly illegible. The tradition is that he was twice 
married. By his second wife Jean, who was born in 
1684, and died November 2, 1770, he had, among 
others, a son, A\^illiam Baird. 

William Baird, son of John and Jean Baird, was 
born in 1715, and died June 20, 1778. He owned a 
large estate at Thorney Hill, County Tyrone, and 
was buried in the Grange graveyard. By his wife 
Martha, who was born in 1728, and died in 1798, 
he was the father of six sons and three daughters: 
John, who went to America ; Alexander, twin 
brother of John, who inherited the Thorney Hill 
estate and died unmarried ; AVilliam ; Margaret, 
married James Pollock; James; Archibald, born in 
1762, who was an apprentice in Londonderry at 
his father's death; Andrew, a surgeon in the Royal 
Navy; Catharine and JNIary. 

It was to Andrew Baird, the youngest son of 
i 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 59 

William Baird, of Thorney Hill, that the present 
Baird family of Aughtermoy owes the fine estate 
near Dunamanagh. He was at school at his father's 
death and was to ser\'e an apprenticeship to an 
apothecary. He became a surgeon in the Royal 
Navy, and was made the recipient of a silver pitcher, 
the gift of Lord Nelson, which is still preserved at 
Aughtermoy. The inscription upon it is as follows: 

Presented to 

Andrew Beard, Esq., M. D. 

As a mark of esteem for his humane attention 

to the gallant officers and men who 

were wounded off Boulogne 

on the 16th of Aug., 1801, 

from their Commander in Chief 

Vice Admiral the Rt. Hon. Horatio 

Lord Viscount Nelson, 

Duke of Bronte, &c. 

Dr. AndrcM^ Baird became the owner of an estate 
known as Aughtermoy in 1829, which he purchased 
from William Baird, the younger, third son of his 
brother, \^^illiam. He replaced the old house by a 
new structure, still standing, which was once a hand- 
some mansion, and laid out the grounds around it 
in an elaborate manner. They are now falling into 
decay from neglect. The farm buildings had walls 
around them after the manner of the bawn of the 
olden time in Ireland. 

William Baird, son of William Baird, of Thorney 
Hill, and JMartha, his wife, was born in 1757, and 
died in 1844. He was one of the owners with his 
brother John of the estate near Dunamanagh, called 



60 THE BARD FAMILY 

Aughtermoy. If this property was acquired by 
William Baird of Thoriiey Hill, it was conveyed to 
John and William jointly in their father's lifetime. 
By Articles of Agreement made July 25, 1778, be- 
tween John Baird, eldest son and heir of William 
Baird, and \^''illiam Baird, the younger, third son of 
said William Baird, they agreed to divide the one 
undivided moiety. William Baird sold to his brother 
Andrew, R. N., September 28, 1829. He was then 
an old man, but he Hved for fifteen years afterward. 
This property is now owned by Andrew Baird, son 
of Archibald Baird, and grandson of James Baird, of 
Thorney Hill. James Baird's children were Archi- 
bald, John, a physician, Andrew, a captain in the 
Royal Navy, and two daughters. Archibald Baird 
inherited Aughtermoy from his uncle, Dr. Andrew 
Baird. 

So far all efforts to establish the identity of John 
Baird, who, according to the traditions of the Bairds 
of Thorney Hill, emigrated to America, have not 
only proved difficult, but unavailing. The most 
probable conjecture, perhaps, would make him iden- 
tical with John Baird, who emigrated to Pennsyl- 
vania soon after the middle of the eighteenth century 
as a young man, and entered the College of Phila- 
delphia, in June, 1757. He was graduated in 1759, 
and served as a tutor, 1759-61. He was ordained as 
a minister in the Presbyterian Church, by the Presby- 
tery of New Castle, and served the people of Not- 
tingham until 1772, when he was dismissed from 
his charge and spent the rest of his life on his farm, 
near Nottingham Church. Even this assumption is 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 61 

only guesswork in a case where one guess is as good 
as another. Others of his name preceded him, and 
still others followed after him. The early Bard, 
Baird and Beard settlers in Pennsylvania, who came 
from the banks of the Foyle, in themselves make 
a complicated connection. Among these was John 
Baird, who settled in Christiana Hundred, in New 
Castle county, Del., before 1728. He was the son 
of James Baird, of Strabane, and he is the only one 
of the name w^hose paternity in Ireland has been 
positively identified. 

John Baird, the ancestor of the Baird family of 
Strabane, County Tyrone, and the grandfather of 
John Baird, of Christiana Hundred, evidently set- 
tled at or near Strabanetown with James Hamilton, 
Earl of Abercorn, at the Plantation of Ulster, or 
soon afterward. About the time of his death, which 
occurred between 1661 and 1665, his name appears 
on an undated Hearth Money Roll for one hearth 
in Strabane. On the same roll are the names of 
John Beard for a hearth in Tatnepoil, in I^eckpat- 
rick parish, and John Berd, of Gortevy, in Dona- 
gheady parish. In 1666, the name of John Baird, 
Beard or Berd is not found on the Roll for any of 
these places. An answer made in 1676, to an 
Exchequer Bill of Andrew Baird, son and heir, and 
claiming to be executor of John Baird, of Strabane, 
smith, deceased, dated January 26, 1675, admits that 
Andrew^ Baird is the eldest son of John Baird, but 
denies that lie is executor and asserts that James 
Baird is the "the executor of John Baird, who is in 
possession of the tenement named in the Bill." 



62 THE BARD FAMILY 

Thus we learn that John Baird, of Strabane, had 
issue, among others, two sons, Andrew and James. 

James Baird, the second son of John Baird, smith, 
of Strabane, acquired a number of his father's houses 
and outlots at Strabane, inchiding the smithy. I..ike 
his father he was a smith. His deeds were lost dur- 
ing the occupation of the country by the army of 
King James II, 1688-89, and his claim for the 
houses and lands, filed in 1703, was allowed. A 
memorial registered in the Registry of Deeds Office, 
Dublin, shows that after his death his forge and 
dwelling in Strabane, two parcels of land situated 
above and near the Holy Well, near the town, and 
the Kirriduffe townland, Termonamagan parisli. 
County Tyrone, were sold to George INlachey or 
McGhea. His will was dated JNIay 30, 1719. He 
married and had issue: John, AVilliam, James, Syd- 
ney, Rebecca and Jane, married AVinkham. 

John Baird or Beard, son of James Baird, smith, 
of Strabane, emififrated to America soon after his 
father's death, and settled in Christiana Hundred, 
New Castle county, Del. By deeds of lease and 
release, dated July 4 and 5, 1728, his wife, Rebecca 
Beard, and his eldest son, Robert Beard, conveyed the 
house on which his father, James Beard, lived in Stra- 
bane, with the forge, to George JNIachey ; also two 
parcels of enclosed land near the Holy Well, near 
Strabane town, and Kirriduffe townland in the Manor 
of Hastings. The deeds were executed by Rebecca 
and Robert Beard for themselves and for .John 
Beard under a letter of attorney, dated February 24, 
1728. The Manor of Hastings contained the town 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 6S 

of Castlederg. At the time the above deeds were 
executed, John Beard was evidently alone in Chris- 
tiana Hundred, his wife and son Robert being in 
Ireland. It is believed that he settled in Chester 
comity. Pa., as a John Beard was a taxable in New 
Londonderry township, 1729-44. 

With this satisfactory account of the antecedents 
of John Baird, of Christiana Hundred, it is greatly 
to be regretted that we have lost trace of his rela- 
tions in Ireland and of his posterity in America. 
Beyond the legal proceedings in which he became 
involved and the fact that he paid hearth money in 
Strabane, in 1666, we have no knowledge of Andrew 
Baird, John's uncle. Andrew Baird or Beard may 
have been the father of Moses Beard, who was an 
elder of the Presbyterian Church at I^ifford, County 
Donegal, opposite Strabane, and was a delegate to 
the General Synod of Ulster, with his pastor, John 
Ball, in 1724. Of John Baird's brothers and sisters 
and their posterity we only know that his brother 
James followed the occupation of their father and 
grandfather — that of a blacksmith in Strabane — and 
that by his wife Elizabeth he had an only child, 
Elizabeth Baird, who was married to Arthur Car- 
roll or McCarroll. Even the fate of John Baird's 
son Robert, who was with his mother in Ireland in 
1729, was left to possible oblivion. 



X 



XT seems desirable that we should discuss in this 
-*- place the possible descendants of John Baird, of 
Christiana Hundred, in America, but interesting as 
this discussion may prove, we must premise at the 
outset that every assumption upon which it is based 
is without authority for the tentative pedigrees 
which are made parts of this chapter. These pedi- 
grees are all of Baird families in Pennsylvania that 
may have been descended from John and Rebecca 
Baird, of Christiana Hundred, and they are given 
in this place partly for that reason, but principally 
that they may not be lost sight of in this Chronicle 
of the Bards. 

It has not been proved that John Baird, who 
was a taxable in Chester coimty. Pa., 1729-44. was 
identical with John Baird, of Christiana Hundred, 
and we have no further facts relating to either of 
them. Contemporary with these, the names of two 
other John Bairds are found in the Pennsylvania 
records, whose identity with them can neither be 
proved nor disproved. One of these seems to have 
come to the INlanor of Masque, of which Gettysburg 
was a part, with the squatters in 1739. He died 
about 1749-50, as letters of administration on his 
estate were taken out in York county, Pa., July 
28, 1750, with his widow, Hannah Baird, as admin- 
istratrix. In the lists of early settlers on Marsh 
<*reek, in what is now Adams county. Pa., as they 

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CHART OF THE FAMILY OF JOHN BAIRD, OF NESHAMINY 



John Baird 
b. in 1675 
21, 1748 
ried 



[John Baird 

b. in 1714; ( 

■'" • ■ -{ 24. 17<tl; 

:d. Feb. ried Elis 

8: mar- , b ir 

^ d. Nov. 7, 



John Baird . . 

d. Feb. 

mar- 

zabeth 

in 1715; 

1808. 



John Baird 

Francis Baird . 
b. in 1758; d. June 
27. 1835; mar- 
ried Margaret 

,b. in 1761; 

d. July 6, 1851. 

Jennett Baird 
Married Alexan- 
der Boyd. 

Anne Baird 
Married William 
Ramsey. 

Elizabeth Baird 
Married William 
Richards. 

I Sarah Baird 
Married Andrew 
Boyd. 



Jane Baird 
John Baird 
Hugh Baird 
James Baird 
Robert Baird 
Francis Baird 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 65 

are printed in the local histories, his claim to lands 
in the manor is credited to John Baird's heirs. His 
wife may have been Hannah Steward, a sister of 
John Steward, who died in Warwick township, Bucks 
county, Pa., in 1761. In that case he was identical 
with John Baird, buried in the graveyard of Ne- 
shaminy Presbyterian church, who was born in 1675, 
and died in Warwick township, Bucks county, Pa., 
February 21, 1748. These four John Bairds may 
have been the same person as it seems unlikely that 
there were four individuals of like name and age 
living in the province at the same time. These four 
Bairds, all named John, were supplemented by five 
other John Bairds in the succeeding generation, of 
whose paternity nothing is known and whose genea- 
logical history is at present insoluble. These were 
John Baird, of Neshaminy, ancestor of the Bucks 
county Bairds; John Baird, of Chester county. Pa., 
ancestor of the Baird family of Washington county. 
Pa.; John Baird, of East Pennsborough township, 
Cumberland county. Pa.; John Baird, who settled 
in M^iat is now Guilford township, P^ranklin county. 
Pa., about 1747; and John Baird, of Westmoreland 
county. Pa. 

John Baird, of Neshaminy, presumed to be a son 
of John Baird, of Warwick township, Bucks county. 
Pa., was born in 1714, and died February 24, 1791. 
He was buried in the graveyard of Neshaminy 
Presbyterian Church. His wife, Elizabeth, was born 
in 1715, and died November 7, 1808. The pedigree 
of the family so far as it has been ascertained is 
given herewith. 



66 THE BARD FAMILY 

According to the traditions preserved by his de- 
scendants, John Baird, the ancestor of the Baird 
family of AA^ashington county, Pa., was an officer 
in the British army under General Braddock, serv- 
ing in the disastrous campaign against Fort Du- 
quesne in 1755, and sharing in the sanguinary de- 
feat on the 9th of July, on the Monongahela; later, 
according to the same authorities, he served in 
General Forbes' expedition, in 1758, losing his life 
in the ambush that resulted in the capture of "Gen- 
eral" Grant. In the family accounts he is described 
as Major Baird. There is at least one mistake in 
the foregoing statement that is obvious. "General" 
Grant, who commanded the detachment that was 
so disastrously defeated, September 14, 1758, was 
Major AVilliam Grant, of the Highlanders' regiment, 
in General Forbes' expedition. Neither in his re- 
port nor in any of the accounts of the defeat is there 
mention of a Major Baird. It seems likely tliat the 
person meant was Lieutenant John Baird, of Captain 
John Prentice's company, in Colonel Hugh Mercer's 
battalion, of the Pennsylvania regiment, who was 
commissioned April 18, 1760. Colonel Mercer was 
in command at Fort Pitt. As Lieutenant Baird's 
name appears on the rolls, giving the number of lots 
of land alloted to each officer, marked " dead," it is 
probable that he died in the service. Major or Lieu- 
tenant Baird married Catharine McClean, who lived 
at Kennett Square, Chester county. Pa., in her 
widowhood, where she died November 28, 1802. 
Their only son, Absalom Baird, was a surgeon in the 
Revolution. 



CHART OF THE FAMILY OF DR. ABSALOM BAIRD 



John Baird . . 
Married Catha- 
rine McClean 



'Absalom Baird . 
b. in 1758: d. Oct. 
27, 1805; mar- 
ried Susannah, 
daughter of 

" George Brown. 



John Baird 

b. July 16. 1784; 
d. in 1836. 

George Baird . 

b. Oct. 28, 1785; 
d. Nov. 1, 1860; 
married Jane 



Thomas Harlan 
Baird .... 

b. Nov. 15, 1787; 
d. Nov. 22. 1866: 
married Nancy 
McCullough. 



William Baird . 
d. in 1834; mar- 
ried Nancy 
Mitchell. 

Sarah Baird . . 

b. March II, 1795; 
d. in 1833; mar- 
ried William 
Hodge, of Ken- 
tucky. 

Susan Baird 
b. in 1796; d. July 
9, 1824: married 
in 18 2 3, Dr. 
Hugh Camp- 
b e 11 , Union- 
town, Pa. 



/'John Baird 
Susan Baird 
Jane W. Baird 

I Andrew Todd 
Baird 

'^George W. Baird 



Baird 



Married George 
Morgan. 

Thomas H. Baird 

Eliza Baird 
Married Pat- 
terson 

Jennie Baird 
Married Charles 
McKnight. 

Margaret Baird 

^Harriet Baird 

/'Absalom Baird, 

Major-Gen. U. S. A. 
' William Baird 

Jane Baird 

Maria Baird 

George B. Hodge 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 67 

Absalom Baird, son of John and Catharine 
(JMcClean) Baird, was born in 1758, and died Oc- 
tober 27, 1805. He became a physician and began 
the practice of his profession at his native village, 
Kennett Square, Chester county. Pa. He served in 
the Revolution as surgeon of Baldwin's regiment 
of Artillery Artificers from March 20, 1780, to March 
29, 1781. In 1784 he removed to Washington 
county. Pa., and practiced there with great success 
until his death. He became a member of the State 
Senate in 1794, and of the Pennsylvania House of 
Representatives in 1798, and was chosen sheriff of 
Washington county in 1799. Dr. Baird was married 
July 14, 1783, to Susanna Brown, daughter of 
George Brown, of Chester county. Pa. She died 
November 10, 1802. The children of Dr. Absalom 
and Susanna Baird were John, George, Thomas 
Harlan, a distinguished jurist of western Pennsyl- 
vania; William, the father of General Absalom Baird, 
U. S. A.; Sarah, who married William Hodge, of 
Kentucky; and Susan, wife of Dr. Hugh Campbell, 
of Uniontown, Pa. A pedigree of the family is 
subjoined. 

John Baird, of East Pennsborough township, 
Cumberland county, Pa., died in July, 1778. By his 
wife Margaret, he had five children: Esther, John, 
Hannah, wife of David Clark; Margaret married 
June 26, 1792, David Kilgore; and Elizabeth. 

John Baird, presumed to be a son of John and 
Rebecca Baird, of Christiana Hundred, New Castle 
county, Del., removed from Chester county, Pa., 
with his brother Thomas, about 1747, and settled in 



68 THE BARD FAMILY 

the Cumberland valley, taking up lands in Guilford 
township, Franklin county. As his name does not 
appear on the Guilford tax list of 1751, it is prob- 
able that he removed to Peters, where he was a taxa- 
ble at that time. He was appointed constable of 
the new township of Fannett in 1754. He was 
married to Agnes IVIcFall, a daughter of Brise JVlc- 
Fall. She was born in 1730, and died February 20, 
1810. Their children were William, John, Francis, 
David, Isabella, Agnes and Jane. It is probable 
that the sons removed to Frankstown, Blair county, 
Pa., but the family has not been traced. 

John Baird, of Westmoreland county, Pa., was 
born about 1740, and died in April, 1805. His 
paternity has not been ascertained. He settled in 
Bedford, now ^Vestmoreland county, Pa., as a 
young man, and took up lands in Mount Pleasant 
township in 1772. He was appointed a justice of 
the peace, June 11, 1777; was a member of the 
Executive Council of Pennsylvania, 1786 - 89 ; a 
member of the Pennsylvania Convention of 1787, 
that ratified the Federal Constitution, but voted 
against ratification; a member of the Assembly, 
1789-90, and of the first House of Representatives 
of Pennsylvania, under the Constitution of 1790; 
and one of the first Associate Judges of AA^estmore- 
land county. The name of his wife was Honour or 
Homier but they had no children. JMr. Baird's will 
shows that he had two brothers, William and 
George, both of AVestmoreland county. Pa. Wil- 
liam Baird had three sons, John, George and Wil- 
liam, and two daughters, JVIartha and Agnes. George 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 69 

Baird was captain of a company of rangers during 
the Revolution. He was the father of two sons, 
Robert and John. 

Tlie descendants of Robert Baird, son of John 
and Rebecca Baird, of Christiana Hundred, present 
a genealogical problem as complicated and obscure 
as that which has preceded it. He probably returned 
from Ireland to America with his mother, but of 
this we have no certain knowledge. One Robert 
Baird obtained an order for the survey of a tract of 
land in what is now Quincy township, Franklin 
county. Pa., April 2, 1767. This land was afterwards 
the Clugston and then the Essick farms; it was 
not surveyed until June 9, 1789, when it had passed 
to Robert and John Clugston. A Robert Baird, 
probably the same who took up the Quincy land, 
was a taxable in Peters township in 1786. He sold 
his farm, which was in what is now Montgomery 
township, to AA'^illiam Berryhill, November 26, 1792, 
and removed to Huntingdon county, where he died 
in the winter of 1795-96. The name of his wife 
was Rebecca, but nothing further is known concern- 
ing her. Their children were Rebecca, JNIary, Martha, 
George, John and Samuel. If their son John was 
the John Baird who was a member of the Pennsyl- 
vania Convention that ratified the Federal Consti- 
tution of 1787, they must also have had a son \A'il- 
liam, besides tlie cliildren named in Robert Baird's 
will, which was dated August 27, 1794, and proved 
in Huntingdon county, February 12, 1796. 

There was still another Baird family in Pennsyl- 
vania contemporary with the others, the name of 



70 thp: bard family 

the ancestor of which has not been ascertained. In 
this Baird family, Robert was a family name through 
at least two generations. In the Life of the Rev. 
Robert Baird, D.D., by his son, the Rev. Henry 
M. Baird, D.D., we are told tliat the Rev. Dr. 
Baird's father's family was of Scotch extraction, 
which, after a sojourn of several generations in the 
northern part of Ireland, near I^ondonderry, had emi- 
grated to the American Colonies and settled in the 
neighborhood of Lancaster, Pa. This emigrant, even 
if not Robert Baird, who was with his mother in 
Ireland in 1729, may have been one of the sons of 
John and Rebecca Beard, of Cln'istiana Hundred, 
or a son of Robert Beard, who was a ruling elder 
early in the eighteenth century in tlie Presbyterian 
congregation of Taughboyne, now St. Johnston, in 
county Donegal, a few miles from tlie city of Derry. 
This Robert Baird died about 1714. His will was 
dated December 19, 1713, and proved June 21. 1714. 
He owned a mill and other property that he con- 
veyed to his eldest son Thomas before liis death. 
Besides liis heir he had a son Jolm, a lieutenant in 
AVhittam's regiment of Foot, who died in 1706, or 
early in 1707, probably in Spain, and Robert, of 
whom we have no knowledge. Robert Baird, the 
father of the llev. Dr. Robert Baird, was born in 
Lancaster county. Pa., December 20, 1756, and died 
in Fayette county. Pa., in 1835. "His childish recol- 
lections," we are told, "were associated with incidents 
of the French war, some of the most thrilling acts 
in the border warfare ha\ing occurred not far from 
the home of his early years." This seems to indi- 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 71 

cate that he was born in what is now Dauphin 
county, near Derry Church, where there was a Baird , 
family at a very early period, but nothing has been 
ascertained to establish the assumption. In tliose 
early days the name of Lancaster was often made 
to embrace a very wide region, and it may be that 
he was a son of Thomas Baird, who lived on the 
Falling Spring, in the Cumberland A^alley, adjacent 
to Chambersburg. As a lad he served in the Ameri- 
can army, in 1776, but was detained by sickness at 
Amboy while his company participated in the battle 
of Long Island. After the Revolution lie settled 
in Fayette county. Pa., at what became New Salem, 
between Uniontown and Brownsville, where he 
secured a tract of land containing several hundred 
acres. He was married February 20, 1781, to Eliza- 
beth Reeves, whose parents were of English and 
AVelsh descent, but natives of I^ong Island. In his 
will he mentions a wife Sarah, and four sons, Moses, 
Alexander, Aaron and Robert, as well as four 
daughters, Hannah Ciallaher, I^ydia Miller, Susanna 
Burnet, and Elizabeth Dearth. 

Thomas Baird, of Falling Spring, named as pos- 
sible grandfather of the Rev. Dr. Baird, was probably 
a son of John and Rebecca Beard, of Christiana 
Himdred, New Castle county, Del., and Xew 
London township, Cliester county. Pa. He was 
born about 1724, and died before November, 1775. 
He came to the Falling Spring with his brother 
John, about 1747, and took up 292 acres of land in 
what is now Guilford township, Franklin county. 
Pa., then Lancaster county. This plantation was 




72 THE BARD FAMILY 

adjacent to the present limits of the borough of 
Chambersburg. John Baird at the same time ob- 
tained a grant of 292 acres of land adjoining the 
Benjamin Chambers' lands on the west and nearly 
surrounded by his brother Thomas' tracts on the 
north and east. Both tracts seem soon after the 
surveys to have become the property of Thomas 
Baird, who was a taxable in Guilford township in 
1751, while the name of John Baird does not appear 
on the tax list for the township. A considerable 
part of this land was purchased by Abraham Stouffer 
in 1792. Stouffer came to Falling Spring from 
Manheim, I^ancaster county, and was, at one time, 
the most extensive land owner along that beauti- 
ful stream, either before or since his day. Only two 
early landmarks remain of the Baird plantations — the 
fine stone farmhouse built by Peter Eberly in 1798 
and now owned by Thaddeus JNI. JMahon, and the 
interesting mansion built by Judge James Riddle 
on his Cold brook estate, which is now the property 
of Augustus Duncan. Mr. Baird was a prominent 
man in his township, and he filled a number of town- 
ship offices. His wife was Mary Douglass. A pedi- 
gree of tiie family is given herewith. 

James Baird, the eldest son of Thomas and Mary 
(Douglass) Baird, was born in 1748. He was a sur- 
veyor and assisted Captain James Potter, afterward 
General Potter, in a resurvey of the lands of John 
JNlcMillan, on the Monongahela, in March, 1771. 
In 1772, he was on the assessment list for Hemp- 
field township, Bedford county, afterward West- 
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acres each. He went from Westmoreland county 
to Kentucky and drew lot 25, afterward No. 88, in 
the first drawing of lots for the town of l^ouisville, 
April 24, 1779. He represented Nelson county in 
the conventions that made Kentucky a state. He 
was married to Mary Potter, daughter of Captain 
John Potter, the first sheriff of Cumberland county, 
Pa. In his will, Cieneral James Potter mentions 
one son of this marriage, Jaines Potter Baird. 
There was probably another son, Thomas Baird, 
and two daughters. Thomas Baird died without 
issue, near Bardstown, Ky., in 1791. He made a 
will, which was proved in Nelson county, Ky., 
December 13, 1791, in which he gave to his brother 
James, 200 acres of land, and to his brothers-in-law, 
John Shields and William Wilson, 100 acres each, 
and named his mother as his residuary legatee. 

Thomas Baird, the second son of Thomas and 
Mary (Douglass) Baird, was born on the Falling 
Spring, near Chambersburg, Pa., in 1754, and died 
in Kentucky, He was assessed for 300 acres of land 
in Hempfield township, Bedford county. Pa., after- 
ward Westmoreland, in 1772. He bought from his 
brother John, November 14, 1776, a part of the old 
Baird plantation on the Falling Spring, which John 
Baird obtained under proceedings in partition in the 
Orphans' Court of Cumberland coimty. This tract 
he sold to Hugh (xibb, January 2, 1778, by whom 
it was called Gibbsburg. It subsequently became 
the country seat of Judge James Riddle, who bought 
it from Gibb's executors, January 9, 1794. On this 
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74 THE BARD FAMILY 

stone mansion that is still standing and is now 
owned by Augustus Duncan. He was in Guilford 
township, Franklin county, Pa., during part of the 
Revolution, and was enrolled in Captain William 
I^ong's Company, Cumberland County Associators, 
of which he was company clerk. It is supposed that 
he was the Thomas Bard who was commissioned 
second lieutenant of Captain James Calderwood's 
Independent Company, January 23, 1777. This 
company M^as raised in the Cumberland \alley, and 
was originally attached to the 11th Virginia Regi- 
ment in tlie Continental service. Captain Calder- 
wood was killed in the battle of the Brandywine. 
Owing to some dissatisfaction the company was dis- 
banded soon after his death. Lieutenant Bard went 
to Kentucky with his brother James and drew Lot 
No. 1, in the first drawing of lots for the town of 
Louisville, April 24, 1779. He probably settled near 
Bardstown, but in 1795 he was living in Shelbys- 
ville, Ky., as is shown by his appointment as guar- 
dian in Cumberland county. Pa., of his son Charles. 
Mr. Baird married Esther Kilgore, daughter of 
Charles and Jane Kilgore, of East Pennsborough 
township, Cumberland county, Pa. 

Charles Baird, son of Thomas and Esther (Kil- 
gore) Baird, was born at Bardstown, Ky., May 23, 
1777, and died at Clay village, Ky. He was married 
to Catharine Tyler, daughter of Judge John and 
Mary (Armistead) Tyler, of Virginia. She was born 
June 13, 1777, and died August 10, 1839. Mrs. 
Baird was a sister of John Tyler, tenth president of 
the United States. Robert Baird, the eldest son of 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 75 

Charles and Catharine (Tyler) Baird, was born at 
Clay village, Ky., November 7, 1798, and died at 
Shirleysburg, Pa. He was graduated M. D. at the 
University of Pennsylvania and practiced his pro- 
fession successively at Cassville, Three Springs, and 
Shirleysburg, in Huntingdon county. Pa. 

John Baird, the third son of Thomas and Mary 
(Douglass) Baird, was born on the Falling Spring in 
1756, and died in Beaver county. Pa. He bought 
the Thomas Baird homestead in Guilford township, 
Cumberland county, now Franklin, under partition 
proceedings in the Orphans' Court of Cumberland 
county in 1775, his elder brothers, James and 
Thomas, having renounced in his favor. He was 
enrolled in Captain AVilliam Long's company, Cum- 
berland County Associators, in 1779, and served a 
tour of duty under I^ieutenant Adam Harmony. 
Late in life he removed to Allegheny, afterward 
Beaver county. 

Samuel Baird, the fourth son of Thomas and 
Mary (Douglass) Baird, was born on the Falling 
Spring about 1757, and died at Pottsville, Pa., June 
26, 1820. He was a surveyor and was interested in 
the coal mines on the Schuylkill in 1784. The first 
discovery of anthracite coal is claimed for Colonel 
Thomas Potts, while hunting at the west branch of 
Norwegian creek, in Schuylkill county. \^'^ith seven 
other persons, of whom Mr. Baird was one, he pur- 
chased the land on which the coal M'as found. This 
coal land was on the branches of the Schuylkill, and 
consisted of ten tracts. An effort was made to work 
the mines under the direction of Mr. Baird, but he 



76 THE BARD FAMILY 

became discouraged and sold his interest in 1788, 
Mr. Baird was married to Rebecca Potts, daughter 
of Thomas and Deborah (Pyewell) Potts. She was 
born in 1757, and died June 16, 1830. The distin- 
guished scientist, Professor Spencer Fullerton Baird, 
of the Smithsonian Institution, was a son of their 
son Samuel. 

The history of William Baird, the fifth son of 
Thomas and Mary (Douglass) Baird, is involved 
in some obscurity. So far it has been found im- 
possible to identify him, and this is also true of 
his younger brothers, Robert and Joseph Baird. 

Another Baird or Bard family that was possibly 
descended from John and Rebecca Beard, of (Chris- 
tiana Hundred, is descended from \^'^illiam Baird, an 
early settler in Letterkenny township, Franklin 
county. Pa., who died December 11, 1810. He was. 
a farmer, and a member of the Rocky Spring Pres- 
byterian Church, in the graveyard of which his re- 
mains were deposited, "attended by the neighbors 
and a large number of relatives and friends." The 
name of his wife was INIary. A pedigree of the 
family is included in the accompanying charts. Three 
of his sons were soldiers of the Revolution. Andrew 
Baird, who died in August, 1813, served with Captain 
James Patton's marching company, of Lieutenant- 
Colonel David Bell's regiment, in 1778, and wajy 
enrolled in Captain Joseph Culbertson's company,. 
Cumberland County Associators, in 1781. John 
Baird was enrolled in Captain John McConnell's. 
company, Cumberland County Associators, 1777-81,. 
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^THO differentiate the early Bard, Baird and Beard 
-*- families of Pennsylvania is a difficult under- 
taking. In the Provincial and Revolutionary records 
the three orthographies are used indiscriminately, 
often for the same person. Even in family usage 
a settled uniformity was long disregarded. In the 
record of marriages in Christ Church, Philadelphia, 
the name Bard does not occur at all, but John Bard 
and Elizabeth Sweeting were married at Gloria Dei 
(Old Swedes'), February 21, 1754. In the Christ 
Church marriage records the Bairds were Joseph, 
married November 22, 1761, to Sarah Smith ; 
Thomas, married May 2, 1745, to Ann Cormont ; 
and AVilliam, married June 20, 1797, to Sarah Re- 
side. The name of Beard occurs only once in these 
records. George Beard was married December 13, 
1740, to Anne Ellicot. In the Old Swedes' Church 
records the name Baird does not occur, but the 
Beard marriages include Alexander, married De- 
cember 31, 1707, to Catharine McClennan ; Ann, 
married October 1, 1766, to James Fitsimmons ; 
Elizabeth, married November 11, 1776, to Francis 
Bell: Jane, married July 16, 1797, to John Cham- 
pagne; Robert, married May 24, 1794, to Elizabeth 
McCall; and Sarah, married December 2, 1792, to 
John Fisher. Among the early marriages of the 
First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, is the name 
of Elizabeth Baird, who was married June 11, 1746, 

(78) 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 79 

to Samuel Wallace, and the names of three Beards, 
Jane, married November 28, 1724, to James Ram- 
age; Rebecca, married April 10, 1724, to Samuel 
Hatrick; and Robert, married November 26, 1728, 
to Susanna Walker. Among the later marriages 
in that church, 1760-1803, there are no Bairds or 
Bards, and only one Beard, Judith, who was married 
P^ebruary 16, 1782, to Samuel Robinnet. Strangely 
enough the names of Baird, Bard or Beard does 
not occur in the early marriage records of the Second 
and Third Presbyterian Churches of Philadelphia, 
but in a list of Pennsylvania marriages, printed in 
the second volume, second series, of the Pennsyl- 
vania Archives, we have these additional Baird 
names: Hannah, married April 18, 1767, to Robert 
Jamison; Jane, married May 12, 1766, to William 
Richards; and John, married June 25, 1763, to 
Elizabeth Diamond. 

It may be assumed that these Bairds were emi- 
grants from Ireland, of Scotch extraction, forming 
part of the forerunners of the people widely known 
in America as Scotch-Irish. The first of this Scotch- 
Irish stock to come to Philadelphia, so far as the 
records show, was Dr. Patrick Baird, who was 
appointed health officer at Quarantine as early as 
1720. He was clerk to the Provincial Council, 1723- 
26, and 1740-42; Clerk of the Court of Vice-Ad- 
miralty, 1724-35; register, 1735-44; and Judge, 
1749-52. He was, besides, appointed an examiner 
in Chancery in 1725, and he was Surveyor of the 
Customs, 1732-35. In 1730, as a chirurgeon, lie 
rented the vendue-room in the northeast corner of 



80 THE BARD FAMILY 

the first Philadelphia Town House. That he was 
a man of probity is shown by the vote of thanks 
from the Provincial Council, when he resigned in 
1742, for his "diligence and exactness in the dis- 
charge of his duty," The reason for his retirement 
was declining health. His name is on the list of the 
First Philadelphia Dancing Assembly. His wife 

Elizabeth , surname not ascertained, was 

buried at Christ Church, October 7, 1750. It has 
not been ascertained whether Dr. Patrick and 
Elizabeth Baird had issue. 

Patrick Baird was a name often found both in 
Scotland and in Ireland. As early as 1599, Patrick 
Baird, writer, was servant to Walter Baird of 
Ordinhaus. He was one of the Bairds of Auch- 
medden. At a still earlier period, Patrick Bard 
or Barde, son of John Bard, and Patrick Barde, 
son of Robert Barde, were contemporaries in the 
barony of Glasgow. John Bard is mentioned in 
1511 in connection with the lands of Estyr Mock- 
row and Edyngeich. In 1538, John Bard's son, 
Patrick Barde, had the Estyr JNIockrow lands. In 
1556 these lands passed to John Bard, son of Patrick 
Bard and Margaret Tyndail, his wife. Patrick Bard, 
son of John Bard, obtained the lease of a tract of 
land in Edyngeich. He married Margaret Garts- 
choir, and had a son John. Patrick Bard, last named, 
died about 1553. 

Another Patrick Barde was a son of Robert 
Barde, of the barony of Glasgow, who owned the 
lands of Conflattis. Robert Barde was married to 
Isabelle Newlands. and besides Patrick, had a son 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 81 

Thomas, presumed to he Thomas Barde. of I)um- 
mershyl, who married Janet Crowar. and a daughter 
Isabelle. wlio married John Stirhng (spelled Ster- 
welling). of Gartinkirk. Patrick Barde, son and 
heir of Robert Barde and Isabelle Xewlands, his 
wife, died about 1556. He was married to Janet 
Towand. Patrick Barde's son, Thomas, inherited 
his interest in the Conflattis lands. In both of the 
foregoing families the surname was as often spelled 
Baird as Barde. 

Among the wills on record at Somerset House, 
London, is one of Peter Board, belonging to the 
ship Dumidgo, Captain Samuel Boyles. This will 
was dated November 20, 1717, and it was signed 
Patrick Bard. It is evident that Peter Board, or 
Patrick Bard had no children as he made John 
Martin his executor and sole legatee. In the index 
to wills at Somerset House the entry is Beard, 
alias Bard, followed by the words '' pet?'iisafs pat- 
riniisy A similar ^'ariation occurs in the nuncupa- 
tive will of William Board, or Bard, of County 
Londonderry, Ireland, which was proved February 
20, 1722. It seems to have been reduced to writing 
while he lay on his deathbed, but as he was too 
weak to write his name he affixed a mark. In the 
body of the will his name is written AVilliam Board, 
but for the mark. AVilliam Bard. His executor was 
John Bard. 

Besides the English and Scotch Bairds. Bardes 
and Bards, a number of Huguenots of the name found 
their way to I^ondon. Albert Bard is mentioned 
in a marriage contract between Jacques Francois 



82 THE BARD FAMILY 

and Rebecca Ricquart, dated July 14, 1626. Bard 
was Rebecca's uncle. At a later period, Jean Bard, 
son of Jean, was baptized in the French church, 
Threadneedle street, I^ondon. This baptism was in 
1685. Nearly twenty years later, August 15, 1706, 
Jacques Bard and Marie, his wife, had a daughter 
baptized in the French church, Le Grecs, in Crown 
street, afterwards called I^ittle Edward street. These 
are only a few of many similar cases that perhaps 
may be uncovered. 

Many Huguenots sought refuge from religious 
persecution in Ireland, from where some of them 
emigrated to America. The Rev. A. Stapleton in 
his "Memorials of the Huguenots," gives the names 
of two Bairds, Francois and ^^^illiam, who emigrated 
from l^orraine in 1754. In Rupp's list of the pas- 
sengers on the Nancy, who landed at Philadelphia, 
September 14, 1754, are Wilhelm and Frantz Bahr. 
If the descendants of either of these adopted the 
name of Baird it is clear that they did not derive 
it either from Ireland or Scotland. No trace has 
been found of Frantz Balir or Francois Baird, in 
Lancaster county, Pa., to which the latter is credited 
in Mr. Stapleton's list, and the only possible iden- 
tification of ^^''ilhelm Bahr with William Baird is 
with AA^illiam, of Earl township, I^ancaster county, 
Pa., who owned lands in Menallen township, York, 
now Adams county. 

Nothing is known of William Baird, of Earl 
township, Lancaster county, and later of Menallen 
township, York county, except the meagre facts 
gleaned from the York County Records. A deed 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 83 

for the Menallen township farm, which contained 
253^ acres, from Wilham Simson to Baird, is on 
record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds, at 
York. It was dated August 9, 1764, and acknowl- 
edged before John Pope, a justice of the peace for 
York county. Simson obtained a Proprietary war- 
rant for the land, September .5, 1746, and it was 
surveyed to him, October 19, 1747. Baird died about 
1766-67, leaving a wife, Martha, and six children, — 
three sons, Joseph, Andrew and William, and three 
daughters, Elizabeth, Margaret and Rebecca. All 
these children were minors at the time of their 
father's death except Joseph Baird or Beard, the 
eldest son. Proceedings were begun in the Orphans' 
Court, of York county, November 25, 1767, on 
petition of Joseph Beard, for the partition of the 
real estate, but beyond tlie appointment of guar- 
dians of the younger children, the record shows no 
further action in regard to AA'^illiam Baird's estate. 
What became of it, or of his descendants is shrouded 
in obscurity. 

The fragmentary character of tlie records relating 
to the Baird families of Pennsyhania renders the 
genealogical problems affecting any of them exceed- 
ingly difficult, and their solution must wait the dis- 
covery of more satisfactory data. 

Equally complicated and unsatisfactory is the 
information so far obtained in regard to the Bairds 
of New Jersey. The first of these was James Baird, 
one of the adherents of the Church of Scotland, who 
was banished to New Jersey in America, July 19, 
1684. His name has not been found in the records 



\ V 



84 THE BARD FAMILY 

of the .Ferseys, but about that year .John Baird set- 
tled near Freehold, in Monmouth county. He was 
a Presbyterian, his name being mentioned in the 
"Brick Church Memorial." It may be that James, 
mentioned in Woodrow's "Cloud of Witnesses," 
was a misprint for John, but it is more likely that 
John was a son of James and was brought to East 
Jersey by his father. AVhatever the facts in regard 
to the two Bairds, James and John, John Baird 
seems to have been the ancestor of the first family 
of Bairds of Scotch extraction that came to America. 
He was born in 1G65, and died in April, 1755. He 
emigrated to New Jersey about 1()83, and settled in 
Monmouth county, near Freehold. He married 
Mary Hall. Tradition says that their courtship was 
one of the shortest on record. ^Vt their first meet- 
ing addressing her he said, "If thou wilt marry me, 
say. Yea; if thou wilt not marry me, say. Nay." 
Mary said, "Yea," and they were married in 1084. 
Among the children of John Baird and Mary Hall, 
his wife, we have the names of .lohn, Andrew, David 
and Zebulon. 

John Baird, son of John Baird, the emigrant, 
was born January 27, 1699, and died February 6, 
1747. He left his estate in Monmouth county, 
N. J., to his wife Avis. Their son, William Baird, 
who died in 1794, lived in Morris county, N. J., but 
subsequently removed to Pennsylvania and settled 
in Dunstable townsliip, Northumberland, now Clin- 
ton county, where he bought 218 acres of wild land 
in 1785, on which he built a log house that was his 
home for the rest of his life. He Mas married 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 85 

December 1, 1750, to Margaret Riley. His sons 
were William, Zebulon, Benjamin and Joseph. 

William Baird, son of AVilliam and Margaret 
(Riley) Baird, was probably identical with William 
Bard, who was appointed second lieutenant of Cap- 
tain William Work's company, 12th Regiment, Pa. 
Line, October 16, 1776. How long he served is 
unknown. Lieutenant Bard has been claimed as a 
son of Peter and Mary (de Normandie) Bard, of 
Mount Holly, N. J., but as their son William died 
in infancy, the assumption can not be accepted. 
That he was William Baird, the son of William, 
who emigrated to Northumberland county is shown 
by the fact that the Twelfth Pennsylvania was 
raised on the West Branch of the Susquehanna. 

Zebulon Baird, also a son of William and Mar- ^l-J^'"'^'^'^ \L-t-/^ 
garet (Riley) Baird, was born in New Jersey, Feb- "T*^ ^^'^'^^ « "V^ 
ruary 19, 1762, and died in Chnton county. Pa. He O^'^^^'^'^'^lj^f^ 
removed to Pennsylvania with his parents in 1785. ^^^ '^ylU^'^ 
He built a house for himself on the West Branch n ^^v^ VV\ C^ 
of the Susquehanna, on a part of the Baird home- tfj^Ji^ ^ 
stead that he inherited from his father. He was ji ^^^ M^ 
married January 1, 1789, to Martha Brown, who 1"^ '^*^'^'/o 
died in 1847. ^^f^ \r\^\^^.. 

Issue: '^^lyj^'^ 

1. Annie Baird, born October 12, 1790. \ ^ 

2. William Baird (born February 11, 1792), married 
and had issue: Lydia, married William Dunn; a 
daughter, married Arthur Dillon; a daughter, married 
McGill, and a daughter, name not ascertained. 

3. Benjamin Baird, born November 26, 1793. 

4. Mary Baird, born August 24, 1795. 



86 THE BARD FAMILY 

5. Jeanny Baird, born November 21, 1797. 

6. Sarah Baird, born June 26, 1800. 

7. Rebecca Baird, born March 24, 1802. 

8. Joseph Baird, born February 7, 1804. 

9. David Baird, of whom presently. 

10. EHzabeth Baird, born April 12, 1809. 

11. Zebulon Baird, (born April 17, 1811), married 
and had issue: Anna, married Jacob Miller; Mary, 
married Andrew White; Jane, married Joseph Pepper- 
man; and Eliza, unmarried. 

David Baird (born June 24, 1806), son of Zebulon and 
Martha (Brown) Baird, was a farnier and lumberman 
on the West Branch of the Susquehanna. In 1838, he 
raised the first tobacco cultivated as a business in Clin- 
ton county. He was a county commissioner, 1855—58. 
Mr. Baird married January 31, 1837, Tabitha Quigley 
(born at North Bend, Clinton county. Pa., September 
11, 1818), daughter of John and Tabitha (Baird) 
Quigley; they had issue: 

1. Arvilla E. Baird (born September 5, 1838), mar- 
ried Samuel Hartzell. 

2. Virginia C. Baird (born August 7, 1840), married 
Richard Dorey. 

3. John Quigley Baird (bcn-n December 18, 1842), 
was a private in Companv I, 28th Regiment, P. V., 
from February 24, 1865 to July 18, 1865. 

4. Martha Jane Baird (born November 24, 1844), 
married A. Farewell. 

5. Robert S. Q. Baird, born May 4, 1847; died April 
10, 1859. 

6. Molhe F. Baird (born July 21, 1853), married K. 
J. Farewell. 

7. Anna Blanche Baird, born September 24, 1860. 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 87 

Andrew Baird, son of John Baird, the emigrant, 
and Mary Hall, his wife, died in C^ctober, 1773. He 
owned a large tract of land in Monmouth county, 
N. J. The name of his wife was Sarah. His eldest 
son, Bedent Baird, was given twenty shillings in his 
father's will, and he divided his real estate among 
three of his sons — Barzillai, Obadiah and Jonathan. 
His will was read to him, October 11, 1773, and he 
affixed his seal to it but did not sign it; his heir at 
law, Bedent Baird, appearing and declaring his will- 
ingness to have it proved as his father's will, it was 
admitted to probate, October 21, 1773. There were 
three younger sons, Samuel, Ezekiel and John. 

David Baird, son of John Baird, the emigrant, 
and Mary Hall, his wife, was born October 19, 1710, 
and died in 1801. He was a prominent farmer of 
Upper Freehold township, Monmouth county, N. J. 
Mr. Baird was married October 27, 1744, to Sarah 
Compton, who was born April 18, 1716. 

Issue : 

1. Jacob Baird (born November, 1744), lived in Mor- 
ris county, N. J., and served in the Morris county 
militia in the Revolution. 

2. Mary Baird (born September 30, 1747), married 
Dye. 

3. John Baird (born October 27, 1750), served in the 
Morris county militia in the Revolution; he inherited 
a plantation in Lower Freehold township, Monmouth 

county, N. J. He married Phoebe , surname 

not ascertained. 

4. David Baird, of whom presently. 

David Baird (born July 16, 1754; died December 24, 
1839), son of David and Sarah (Compton) Baird, was 



88 THE BARD FAMILY 

a soldier of the Revolution in the First Regiment, Mon- 
mouth county, N. J., militia, 1776-77, being promoted 
from private to first sergeant, ensign, lieutenant, and 
captain; he was quartermaster of the regiment. Mr. 
Baird was married three times. His first wife was 
Rebecca Ely, Mr. Baird married (2), Lydia Gaston. 
Mr. Baird married (3), November 25, 1795, Mary 
Edwards, (born about 1771). 
Issue by his first wife. 
1. Rebecca Baird. 
Issue bv his second wife: 

1. Sarah Baird, born November 1, 1781. 

2. Mary Baird, born October 15, 1782. 

3. John Baird, born March 19, 1784. 

4. Jane Baird, born December 19, 1785. 

5. Lydia Baird. 

6. Phoebe Baird, born November 14, 1791, married 
David Perrin. 

Issue by his third wife: 

1. David Baird, born February 22, 1797. 

2. Rei Baird, born May 15, 1798. 

3. Elizabeth Baird, born March 2, 1800. 

4. Thomas Baird, of whom presentlv. 

5. Aim Baird, born December 23, 1803. 

Thomas Baird (born February 6, 1802), son of David 
and Mary (Edwards) Baird, married Eleanor T. Bil- 
yeu, daughter of Peter and Maria (Ogborne) Bilyeu, of 
Upper Freehold township, Monmouth county, N. J. ; 
they had issue: 

1. David Baird, of whom presently. 

2. Jonathan Baird, born August 21, 1829, twin 
brother of David; died in infancv. 

3. Sarah Baird (born March 20, 1833), mari'ied John 
E. Hunt. 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 89 

David Baird (born in Millstone township, Monmouth 
county, N. J., August 29, 1829), son of Thomas and 
Eleanor T. (Bilyeu) Baird, was educated at the Free- 
hold Institute, and became a farmer. He married 
December 9, 1852, Mary E. Pullen^ daughter of Isaac 
and Jane (Hulit) Pullen, of East Windsor, Mercer 
county, N. J.; they had issue: 

1. Emerson P. Baird, born October 11, 1853. 

2. Sarah H. Baird, born July 9, 1855. 

3. Charles Augustus Baird, born May 15, 1857. 

4. Thomas Baird, born January 2, 1859; died in 1862. 

5. Willie Baird, born September 11, 1860; died young. 

6. Isaac Baird, born November 11, 1861; died young. 

7. Howard Baird, born February 16, 1863. 

8. Carrie Baird, born March 27, 1865. 

9. Henry Leslie Baird, born November 28, 1867; died 
young. 

10. David Baird, (born February 16, 1869), was grad- 
uated M. D. at Bellevue Hospital Medical College; he 
practiced his profession at Florence, Burlington county, 
N. J. 

11. John H. Baird (born P'ebruary 7, 1872), went to 
Georgia. 

Zebulon Baird, son of John Baird, the emigrant, 
and Mary Hall, his wife, was born October 13, 1720, 
and died January 28, 1804. He Avas married Feb- 
ruary 1, 1749, to Anna Smith, who was born August 
17, 1731, and died December 28, 1794. 

Another possible son of James Baird, the exile, 
was William Baird or Beard, who settled in INIans- 
field, Burlington county, N. J., and died in 1690, 
letters of administration on his estate being taken 
out by his widow, Katharine Beard, January 31, 



90 THE BARD FAMILY 

1690-91. While it may be assumed that the Bairds 
of West Jersey were descended from WiUiam and 
Katharine Beard, it is impossible, in the absence of 
the connecting links in the family chain, to fix the 
relationship of the three Bairds whose names are 
found in the records of Himterdon county in the 
latter half of the eighteenth century. 

William Baird, one of the supposed sons of Wil- 
liam and Katharine Beard, died before 1763. He 
lived at Tewkesbury, Hunterdon county, N. J. He 
was married October 14, 1751, to Margaret O'Hara, 
a widow, who died in 1764. They had no children. 
By her first marriage Mrs. Ban-d had a daughter, 
Margaret O'Hara, who married Israel Genning, or 
Ginnens; she also left two grandsons — George and 
James O'Hara. 

Richard Baird, another supposed son of ^^'^illiam 
and Katharine Beard, died in 1765. He lived in 
Readington township, Hunterdon county, N. J. 
He was township collector, 1759-60. His will was 
dated February 17, 1765, and pro\'ed March 20, 
1765. He was married to Elizabeth Ross, daughter 
of John Ross, and had three children, Elizabeth, 
AVilliam and John. AA^illiam Baird was born about 
1752, and died in 1794. He was a farmer in the 
western precinct of Somerset county, X. J. He 
was a captain in the second battalion, Somerset 
county militia, and was promoted to be first major, 
November 6, 1777, to succeed Major Benjamin 
Baird, who was made lieutenant colonel, September 
9, 1777. The family of the latter has not been as- 
certained. John Baird was born about 1758, and 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 91 

was sergeant in the second battalion, in the Somerset 
county, N. J., mihtia, 1776-77, and was promoted 
to captain, 1777. He was married in March, 1779, 
to Catharine Deboise. 

James Baird, the other supposed son of Wilham 
and Katharine Beard, died in 1778. He hved in 
Bethlehem township, Hunterdon county, N. J. In 
his will, dated September 27, 1778, and proved 
November 1, 1778, he left a legacy of five pounds 
to the trustees of the Mansfield Woodhouse meet- 
ing house. Mr. Baird, in 1703, offered a plantation 
to be let in the Jerseys, within three miles of Phila- 
delphia. He was a member of the Town Committee 
for Bethlehem township, 1768-7*2, and a Freeholder 
in 1770, 1772 and 1777. He was described as 
Captain James Baird. The name of his wife was 
Elizabeth Bowlsby; they had no issue. He left his 
estate to his wife to dispose of it as she chose. 
She left one-fourtli of her estate to her brother, 
Thomas Bowlsby, and the remaining three-fourths 
to her nephew, Thomas Bowlsby, son of her brother 
John, in trust, one-fourth for the children of her 
brother Richard, one-fourth for the children of her 
brother George, and one-fourth for the children of 
her brother John. She directed that her negro wench, 
Pegg, should be freed at her death, and her negro 
boy, Oroonoko, when twenty-five years old, and be 
given twenty pounds. Her will was dated Sep- 
tember 10, 1782, and proved February 16, 1785. 



XII 



nvrONE of the early families of New Jersey was 
-^^ more interesting than that which came from 
Peter Benoist Bard. In this work it fills a niche 
of the higliest importance because it is typical of 
of the whole Bard kinship. It is the connecting 
link between the Bards of Italy, Germany, France 
and England and the Bairds of Scotland, and the 
Bairds and Beards of Ireland and America. Among 
Americans of Continental extraction it stands for 
that distinctive brand of French Protestantism that 
rejoices in the naine of Huguenot. Unfortunately, 
a disposition has been shown by some of the Ameri- 
can families of Continental extraction to confine 
their claim of Huguenot descent wholly to them- 
selves, and seek to narrow the widely disseminated 
septs of the Bards to a few families of French 
Protestants. The effect of these efforts at limita- 
tion has been to obscure instead of conserve. The 
Bards of Burlington, who are of unquestionable 
Huguenot descent, have suffered with the others 
from this narrowing policy, and it has been found 
impossible in consequence to make the history of 
this family as complete as it might have been had 
there been an earlier and wider recognition of the 
Bard kinship. 

Peter Benoist Bard was a Huguenot, who fled to 
England with his family in 1682, and died in I^on- 
don. According to soine accounts, he remained in 

(92) 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 93 

France, it being his son, Peter, who fled with his 
wife and family to escape rehgious persecution 
after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but 
this is disproved by the fact that Peter, the younger, 
was married in America. Peter Bard, son of Peter 
Benoist Bard, was born at MontpeUier, Languedoc, 
France, in 1679, and died at Burhngton, N. J., 
July 13, 1734. He came to America in 1706, and 
settled at Burlington, N. J. He was naturalized, 
June 12, 1713. He bought a large tract of land 
in Burlington township in 1714, that he named 
INIontpellier. The iron works at Mount Holly and 
the Eayrstown mills were included in the purchase. 
He sold this property in 1715, but continued to 
deal in lands, on which he built mills and saw- 
mills. He was a justice of the peace, 1720-34; 
Colonel Commandant of New Jersey Regiment of 
Foot, May 4, 1722 ; and Judge of the Supreme 
Court of New Jersey. Colonel Bard was married 
at New Castle, Del., in 1709, to Dinah Marmion, 
daughter of Dr. ^^Samuel and Elizabeth (Parker) 
Marmion, of Liecestershire, England. She was born 
in 1693, and died July 19, 1760. 

Mary INIartha Bard, daughter of Peter and Dinah 
(Marmion) Bard, was born IVIarch 10, 1710, and 
died August, 11, 1803. She was married June 17, 

1742, to the Rev. Colin Campbell, son of 

and Mary (Duff) Campbell. He was born at Earn- 
hill. County Nairn, Scotland, November 15, 1707, 
and died at Burlington, N. J., August 9, 1766. 
His grandfather, AVilliam Campbell, was Sheriff of 
Nairn. He belonged to the branch of the Camp- 



94 THE BAKU FAMILY 

bells of which Earl Cawdor is the head, who are 
descended from John Campbell, son of the second 
Earl of Argyll. He attended school at Merdeen 
and Inverness, but being the tenth child in a family 
of fourteen, he lived with his aunt, Lady Drum- 
maire. He was educated for the Established Church 
and was sent to West Jersey by the Society for 
the Propagation of the Gospel, where he became 
the first rector of St. JMary's Parish, Burlington, 
1738-66. 

Issue : 

1. Mary Ann Campbell, born July 2, 1743. 

2. Mary Campbell, born August 13, 1745. 

3. Hugh Campbell, born January, 1748. 

4. Rebecca Campbell, born in 1750. She was married 
July 13, 1768, to the Rev. William Frazer, of Am- 
well; they had issue: Colin, Ijorn May 24, 1769. 

5. Colin Campbell, born December 15, 1751. 

6. John Campbell, was born February 4, 1754. He 

married Mary -; they had issue: Sarah, born 

March 14, 1773. 

7. Jane Cam})bell, born November 6, 1755; died Feb- 
ruary 19, 1770. 

8. Archibald Campbell, born October 25, 1758. 

9. Charles Campbell, born in 1765. 

Benoist, or Bennett, Bard, son of Peter and 
Dinah (Marmion) Bard, was born July 26, 1711, 
and was buried in Christ Church graveyard, Phila- 
delphia, February 12, 1757. He lived at Burling- 
ton, N. J,, and acquired extensive holdings of real 
estate. He was Sheriff of Hunterdon county in 
1736, but was removed from office, the Council ad- 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 95 

judging him guilty of "divers notorious Barratrys, 
extortions and other malversions in his office and 
of cruelly and unjustly using and abusing the 
prisoners in his custody." 

Issue : 

1. James Bard, baptized in Burlington, N, J., October, 
1741. 

2. William Bard, died June 17, 1775. He was a 
lieutenant in Lord Percy"'s regiment, and was killed in 
the battle of Bunker Hill. 

Peter Bard, son of Peter and Dinah (Marmion) 
Bard, was born at Burlington, N. J., July 29, 1712, 
and died at Mount Holly, N. J., January 30, 1769. 
He was Commissary of the second battalion of 
the Pennsylvania Regiment in the expedition against 
Fort Duquesne in 1758, and Commissary General 
to the regiment, 1763-64. He was married in Christ 
Church, Philadelphia, September 28, 1738, to Marie 
de Normandie, who was born at Bristol, Pa., May 
15, 1718, and died at Mount Holly, N. J. 

Issue : 

1. John Abraham Bard, born July 3, 1739, buried at 
Christ Church, Philadelphia, November 20, 1742. 

2. Samuel Bard, was born December 15, 1740, and 
died at Bristol, Pa., December 14, 1769. He studied 
law and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar, Novem- 
ber 3, 1761. In 1765 he removed to Bristol, Pa., and 
practiced at the Bucks County Bar until his death. 
Shortly before his demise he had bought the Bard 
iron works at Mount Holly, N. J., from his father. 
He was married April 20, 1766, to Mary Valleau, and 
had two children, Robert Jenny and Charlotte. 



96 THE BARD FAMILY 

3. Harriet Bard, born January 16, 1742. 

4. Mary Bard, married Dr. Samuel Bard. 

5. William Bard, was born November 26, 1749, and 
was buried at Christ Church, Philadelphia, April 13, 
1751. 

6. Peter Bard, born October 2, 1751. 

7. Charlotte Bard, born October 2, 1751. 

8. Sarah Bard, born August 8, 1754. 

Samuel Bard, son of Peter and Dinah (Marmion) 
Bard, was born Jannary 14, 1714, and buried at 
Christ Church, Philadelphia, August 6, 1735. 

Issue : 

1. William Bard. 

John Bard, son of Peter and Dinah (JMarmion) 
Bard, was born at Burlington, N. J., February 1, 
1716, and died at Hyde Park, N. Y., April 1, 1799, 
He was a physician. He began the practice of his 
profession in Philadelphia, but removed to New 
York in 1746, where he took high rank. In 1759, 
when a malignant fever was epidemic in New York, 
he recommended the purchase of Bedloe's island 
for the isolation of contagious diseases, and was 
given charge of the hospital built according to his 
suggestions. He was the first president of the New 
York JNIedical Society. Dr. Bard was married in 
Christ Church, Philadelphia, to Susanna ^^alleau, 
who was born in New York, July 19, 172-, and died 
at Hyde Park, N. Y. 

Issue : 

1. Magdalena Bard, married Muirson, who 

was probably a son of the Rev. George Muirson, sent to 



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the colonies early in the eighteenth century by the 
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and died in 
1709. 

2. Nancy Bard, married Colonel Pierce. 

3. Susanna Bard, married Nathaniel Pendleton, son of 
James and Mary Pendleton, who was born in Culpeper 
county, Va., in 1756, and died in New York, October 
20, 1821. He became ensign in the 10th Continental 
Infantry, January 1, 1776; 1st lieutenant, 11th Regi- 
ment, Virginia Line, July 23, 1776 ; and captain, March 
13, 1777. He was captured at Fort Washington, Man- 
hattan Island, November 16, 1776, and exchanged, 
October 18, 1780. Upon his return to the army he 
was transferred to, the 3d Regiment, Virginia Line, Feb- 
ruary 12, 1781, but served as Aid-de-camp to General 
Greene, with the rank of major, from 1780 until the 
close of the war. He received the thanks of Congress 
for his services at the battle of Eutaw Springs. After 
the Revolution Major Pendleton settled in Georgia, 
where he was United States District Judge. In 1796, 
he removed to New York, where he attained eminence 
at the Bar and became judge of Dutchess county. He 
was Hamilton's second in the duel with Aaron Burr in 
1804. Judge Nathaniel and Susanna Pendleton had 
two children, Nathaniel Greene and Anne Pendleton. 
Nathaniel Greene Pendleton was born in Savannah, Ga., 
in 1793, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 16, 1861. 
He was a Representative in Congress from Ohio, and 
was married in 1820, to Jane Frances Hunt, daughter 
of Joseph Hunt, an Ohio pioneer. Among his children 
were George Hunt Pendleton, United States Senator 
from Ohio, and American minister to Germany, and 
Elliott Hunt Pendleton, a member of the United 
States Sanitary Connnission during the Civil War and 
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98 THE BARD FAMILY 

4. Samuel Bard, of whom presently. 

5. John Bard, was born at Burlington, N. J., in 1744, 
and died in 1813. He was appointed a captain in the 
2d Regiment, Georgia Line, in November. 1776, but 
was taken prisoner at Savannah, December 29, 1778. 
He remained a prisoner on parole until the close of the 
war, joining his family in New York in 1779. He was 
one of the original members of the New York Society, 
Order of the Cincinnati. Captain Bard was married in 
1792, to Mary Grover. 

6. Peter Bard, born February 1, 1746; buried at Bur- 
lington, N. J., June 14, 1769. 

Samuel Bard, son of Dr. John and Susanna ( Val- 
leau) Bard, was born at Burlington, N. J., April 1, 
1742, and died at Hyde Park, N. Y.. May 24, 1821. 
He was graduated at King's College, now Columbia 
University, N. Y., in 1758, and studied medicine in 
Edinburgh, where he received his degree of M. D., 
in 1765. After making a tour of the continent he 
returned to New York, where he began the practice 
of his father's profession in his father's office in 1767. 
Soon after beginning the practice of medicine he 
founded a medical school and a hospital in New 
York, but the latter being burned in 1769, its estab- 
lishment was not achieved until 1791. He was pro- 
fessor of the practice of medicine in the college and 
subsequently dean of the faculty. AY hen the medical 
school of Columbia College was organized as a sep- 
arate institution in 1818, under the name of the 
College of Phy^sicians and Surgeons, Dr. Bard 
became its first president. \Yhile New York was 
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A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 99 

was President AVashington's physician. In 1793, he 
retired from the active practice of his profession, 
and afterward made his home at Hyde Park on the 
Hudson. He was the author of a number of import- 
ant medical treatises. Dr. Bard was married JNIay 
14, 1770, to his cousin, JMary Bard, daughter of 
Peter and Marie (de Normandie) Bard. She was 
born June 18, 1746, and died May 23, 1821. 
Issue : 

1. Susanna Bard, born June 24, 1772, was married 
May 23, 1792, to John Johnstone, son of David and 
Margaret (Walton) Johnstone, of the Johnstones of 
Annandale. He was born June 13, 1762, and died 
August 29, 1850. He was Judge of the Court of 
Connnon Pleas, of Dutchess county, x\. Y. Judge 
John and Susanna Johnstone had ten children. 

2. John Bard, born September 1, 1774; died in infancy. 

3. Mary Bard, born February 8, 1776; died in infancy. 

4. William Bard, of whom presently. 

5. Harriet Bard, born October 4, 1779 ; died in in- 
fancy. 

6. Harriet Bard, born March 23, 1786; died young. 

7. Eliza Bard, was born October 12, 1787, and died 
April 27, 1833. She was married, November 12, 1809, 
to John McVickar, son of John and Ann (Moore) 
McVickar. He was born in New York, August 10, 
1787, and died October 6, 1868. He was graduated 
at Columbia College in 1804, and was for many years 
rector of St. James P. E. Church, Hyde Park, N. Y. 
Among other works, he published a "Narrative of the 
Life of Dr. Sainuel Bard." Dr. John and Eliza 
McVickar had eight children, the youngest being the 
Rev. Dr. AA'^ilHam Augustus McVickar. for many years 
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100 THE BARD FAMILY 

- William Bard, son of Dr. Samuel and Mary 
(Bard) Bard, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 
4, 1778, and died on Staten Island, N. Y., October 
17, 1853. He was graduated at Columbia College, 
N. Y., in 1798. Mr. Bard was married October 7, 
1802, to Catharine Cruger, daughter of Nicholas 
Cruger. She was born at Santa Croix, W. I., May 
7, 1781, and died on Staten Island, N. Y., October 
14, 1868. 

Issue : 

I. Samuel Bard, born August 4, 1803; died unniarried, 
January 17, 1833. 

• 2. Anne Bard, married Edmund Prime. 

3. Caroline Bard, l)orn July 6, 1806 ; died unmarried, 
February 17, 1883. 

4. Marv Bard, died in infancy. 

5. Catharine Bard, born September 21, 1809; died in 
infancy. 

6. Susan Bard, married Ferdinand Sandys. 

7. Elizabeth Bard, married Rufus K. Delafield. 

8. WiUiam Henry Bard, born October 2, 1815; died 
April 6, 1834. 

9. Nicholas Bard, born in 1816; died in infancy. 

10. Bertram Bard, born May 1, 1817. 

II. John Bard, was born June 2, 1819, and died Feb- 
ruary 12, 1899. He Hved at Chichester, England, and 
Dresden, Germany, for many years, but retm-ned to his 
natiye land in 1895, making his home at Washington, 
D. C, where he died. He was married first. May 17, 
1845, to Margaret Taylor Johnston, a sister of John 
Taylor Johnston, of New York. She died April 10, 
1875. He was married secondly, October 18, 1876, to 
Annie Belchei', of Brighton, Eng. By his first wife, he 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 101 

had a son, who died young, and one daughter, and a 
daughter by his second wife. 

12. Mary Bard, was born April 15, 1821, and died 
September 14, 1847. She was married to Arthur B. 
Morris. 

13. Cruger Bard, born March 26, 1825; died in 
infancy. 

Rebecca Bard, daughter of Peter and Dinah 
(Marmion) Bard, was born in 17*21, and died July 
14, 1767. She was married July 3, 1745, to John 
Abram de Xormandie, son of John Abrani and 
Henrietta Elizabeth (Gardonet) de Normandie. He 
was born at Bristol, Pa., July, 1713, and died at 
Hyde Park, N. Y., in 1803. He became a physician 
and practiced his profession at Bristol. He was a 
member of the American Philosophical Society, 
1768, and of the New Jersey JNledical Society, 1790. 
He removed to Burlington, N. J., in 1787, but his 
last years were spent with the Bard family at Hyde 
Park, N. Y. Dr. John and Rebecca de Normandie 
had a daughter, JNIary, who died in infancy. 

The de Normandies were descended from an ancient 
and noteworthy French family. As eai'ly as 1460, 
Guillaume de Normandie was Governor of Noyon ; 
his wife was a daughter of the Lord de Mialle d'Aisilly 
and Montiscourt. One of his descendants, Laurent 
de Normandie, was a close friend of John Calvin and 
prominent in the Reformation. Jean de Normandie 
was a son of Laurent, Joseph was a son of Jean, 
Michael was a son of Joseph, and Andre was a son 
of Michael. 



102 THE BARD FAMILY 

James of Bard, son Peter and Dinah (IMarmion) 
Bard, was born August 2, 1722, and died in infancy. 

William Bard, son of Peter and Dinah (JNlarmion) 
Bard, was born August 30, 1723, and died July 30> 
1796. 

The Bards of Burlington are now extinct in the 
male line. 



XIII 

^T^HE first mention of the Bard name after tliat 
-^ of Colonel Peter Bard was May 1, 171*2, when 
a widow Bard was married by the Kev. John Sharpe 
to Francis Sheerman. It is, perhaps, too late to as- 
certain who the first husband of Mrs. Bard was, but 
it is possible — barely possible — that he was of the 
same stock as Thomas Bard, of whom we had a 
glimpse as a passenger from England to A^irginia 
on the "Assurance," in 1035. This Thomas is 
probably identical with Thomas Bard whose name 
is joined with that of Thomas Juxon, in the will 
of Charles Harvey, citizen and draper of London, 
proved November 5, 1672. The reference in Har- 
vey's will is as follows : " Cousins Thomas Bard and 
his wife and Thomas Juxon and his wife." Thomas 
Juxon was the second son of John Juxon, and a 
grandson of AVilliam Juxon, bishop of London. 
Among his cousins were Sir William Juxon and 
*'^Villie Juxon, late of A^irginia." This last phrase 
is suggestive of Thomas Bard's return to England 
previous to the mention of his name in Harvey's 
will. He was born in 1619, and he may have been 
one of the Bards of North Kelsey, possibly a son 
or nephew of the Rev. George Bard, of Staines, 
Middlesex. 

In the same year that Thomas Bard emigrated 
to Virginia, 1635, another Bard, Robert, came out 
as a servant in an English family. No descendants 



104 THE BARD FAMILY 

of these A'irginia Bards have been found. The name 
is found in New England ahnost as early as in 
A^irginia. The I^ynn records show that John Bard, 
son of John, was born January 29, 1668. From these 
Johns it is possible that the Bards of Billerica and 
Charlestown, JNIass., and of Ferrisburgh, \"t., given 
below, were derived, but this is far from established, 
as the name was also written Beard, and there was a 
number of early Beard emigrants in New England. 
Among these were Thomas Beard, Salem, Mass., 
1629; William Beard, Dover, N. H., 1640; James 
and Jeremy Beard, JNIilford, Conn., 1642; Aaron 
Beard, Pemaquid, 1674 ; and Thomas Beard, Ips- 
wich, 1675. 

William Beard, who settled at IJover, N. H., in 
1640, was described at the time of his death as 
"the good old man." He was killed by the Indians 
at Durham, in 167o. His son, Joseph Beard, was 
born in 16.55, and was living at Dover, N. H., 
in 1694. Joseph Beard's wife, Esther, died in 
1685. 

The first of the Bards of Billerica, Mass., of 
whom mention has been found, was David Bard, 
who was married to Hannah Hayward. His son, 
David Bard, was married to Mary Ingersol, of Nel- 
son, N. H., and had a son, Simeon Ingersol Bard, 
who was born at Nelson, N. H., June 2, 1797, and 
died at Derby, Vt., June 10, 1852. Simeon Ingersol 
Bard was a teacher in early life, but, having studied 
medicine, he practiced his profession at Hillsboro, 
N. H., and later at Francistown. He subsequently 
removed to Derby, Vt., where he adopted the homeo- 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 105 

pathic system. Dr. Bard was married June 2, 
1825, to Lucinda Stowe Morse, of Hillsboro, and 
had three daugliters, JNIary Ingersol, Elizabeth 
Greenwood and Lorraine Reed, and one son, 
George Ingersol Bard. George Ingersol Bard was 
born at Francistown, N. H., JNIay 5, 1835. He was 
graduated at the University of A^ermont in 1857, 
and at Andover Seminary in 1860. He is a 
Congregational minister in New Hampshire. He 
was married August 1, 1801, to Jerusha Gould 
Parker, of Littleton, N. H. His children were 
Henry Ingersol, a physician; George Parker, a 
civil engineer ; JMary ; Herbert Barclay ; and Julia 
Howard. 

There was a IVIargaret Bard at Boston, July 27, 
1768, and Edward Bard was li^ing at Charlestown, 
Mass., in 1774. His wife was Sarah, and his children 
were Mary, Nancy, and Edward. 

Warren Bard, a native of Ferrisburgh, Vt., was 
born April 18, 1809, and was married May, 11, 1836, 
to Mary Jane Webster, daughter of Benijah and 
Esther (Bostwick) Webster. She was born at Ver- 
gennes, Vt., December 14, 1814. Their children were 
William Webster and Mary Ellen. William 
Webster Bard was born April 7, 1839, and died 
May 2, 1898. He was married October 17, 1866, 
to Ursula Porter, who was born at Ferrisburgh, 
May 1, 1840. Their children were Cora Julia and 
Emma Jane. 

Besides the later New England Bards, there were 
a number of families of the name in the middle and 
western states at the Revolutionary period and 



106 THE BARD FAMILY 

afterwards. It has not been found practicable to 
trace the hneage of any of these famihes, except 
in a fragmentary and desultory way. In most 
of them, e\'en the country of their ancestry is 
uncertain. The meagre information concerning them 
that has been collected during the preparation 
of this work is here gi\en in sunnnarized form, 
for its preservation, with the hope that it may lead 
those whom it interests to make more successful 
efforts. 

A New Jersey family, apparently not related to 
the Bairds of Monmouth and Hunterdon counties 
or the Bards of Burlington, is descended from 
Thomas Bard, who settled near Tom's river, in 
Ocean county, \. J., in the closing years of the 
eigiiteenth century, where he married into a Dutch 
family of the neighborhood, his wife being Dolly 
or Dorothy Vru Note. He was the father of six 
sons, Zebedee, William, Thomas, Joseph, Joel and 
Benjamin, and two daughters, Deborah and INlar- 
garetta. Thomas Bard, the younger, went to INIill- 
ville, Cumberland county, N. J., in 1822. His son, 
Samuel F. Bard, lives at Bridgeton, N. J. Joel Bard, 
anotlier son of Thomas and Dolly (^^an Note) Bard, 
M'cnt to Indiana in 1850, and later removed to Boone 
county, Iowa. He was married to Anna JNIaria 
Shultz, daughter of John and Sarah Shultz. They 
had a son, George Bard, and a daughter, Emma 
Hannali Bard (JNIrs. Shoemaker), of Grand Rapids, 
Iowa. 

Among the later Bard families of Pennsylvania 
was one of which James Bard, a native of County 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 107 

Down, near Belfast, Ireland, was the progenitor. It 
is said that his grandfather suffered the miseries of 
the siege of Londonderry, from which it may be 
inferred that he belonged to one of the Baird families 
that were settled on both sides of the Foyle, after 
the Plantation of Ulster. James Bard emigrated to 
Pennsylvania during tlie Revolution and settled in 
the Conococheague A'alley, as a part of the great 
Cumberland Valley is often called. He was enrolled 
in Captain John McConnell's company of Colonel 
Samuel Culbertson's battalion, Cumberland County 
Associators, 1780-81-82. This indicates that he 
lived in Letterkenny or Hamilton township in what 
is now Franklin county, Pa. After the Revolution 
he removed to the Black IvOg A'alley, in Hunting- 
don county. Pa., where his children were reared, and 
where he died. As a young man, JMr. Bard was 
married in Ireland to Jane Rutherford, whom he 
left behind him, with their two eldest sons, William 
and Hugh. After the Revolution, Mrs. Bard, with 
her children, followed her husband to America, and 
lived to be almost a centenarian, dying in Black Log 
^"alley in 1856. Landing at New York after a voy- 
age of three months, she made the journey to the 
Conococheague in a wagon, hauling one of the boys 
all the way with a broken leg. Their other sons, 
James, Adam and Samuel, and their daughter 
Nancy, were born in Pennsylvania. A\'^illiam and 
James Bard died without issue. Hugh married and 
removed to western Pennsylvania. Adam renio\ed 
to Mifflin county. Pa.; he had daughters but no 
sons. Samuel was twice married, first to JNIary Mor- 



108 THE BARD FAMILY 

gan, daughter of Joshua and Hannali (Stork) Mor- 
gan, of Huntingdon county. They had five sons, 
Joshua, Harrison, George, James and Thomas, and 
four daughters, married respectively to Jacob Sellers, 
John Early, Henry Gerrier, and Thomas JNIiddleton. 
There was also a daughter, who died unmarried. 
Nancy Bard, daughter of James and Jane Bard, was 
married to Robert Hamilton, a charcoal burner at 
Paradise Furnace, Huntingdon county, Pa. She 
died at Orbisonia in 1880. Her cliildren were Hester 
A., Henderson, Margaret, ^Martha, Alfred J. and 
Robert. Hester A. married Isaac Seacrist, and 
JMartha married Thomas Kelly. Alfred J. Hamil- 
ton served with the 19th Pennsylvania Cavalry in 
the Civil War. He is a physician at Cassville, Pa. 
Robert Hamilton, the youngest son, died in the 
army near Richmond, Va., in 18G4. 

Another Bard or Baird family of the Conoco- 
cheague A^alley, already briefly noticed with a pedi- 
gree in a preceding chapter, presents a curious varia- 
tion in the use of the names of Bard and Baird at 
different periods. On the tombstone inscriptions in 
Rocky Spring graveyard the name was at first spelled 
Bard, but at a later period it became Beard. The 
living representatives of the family have all reverted 
to the original spelling, and the name now in use by 
the descendants is Bard. This is also true of the 
descendants of William and Jane (Martin) Baird, 
of Shippensburg. This AVilliam Baird was probably 
a son of John Bard, and a grandson of ^^^illiam and 
Mary Bard, of Rocky Spring. He was born in 
December, 1774, and died December 25, 1839. He 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 109 

was married in December, 1794. to Jane Martin, 
who was born in 1776, and died in 1857. Their sons 
were James and David. James, the elder son, seems 
to have followed his father's example early in life, 
but all his descendants write the name Bard. He 
was born August 1, 1795, and died October 18, 1862. 
He was for many years a teacher of the old-fash- 
ioned subscription or pay schools, which preceded 
the public school system in Pennsylvania. Captain 
Bard, as he was generally called, was married 
in October, 1820, to Margaret Orr, daughter of 
Thomas and Martha (Breckenridge) Orr. She was 
born September 13, 1799, and died January 9, 
1872. She was a sister of the Orr brothers who 
were the founders of the borough of Orrstown, 
in Franklin county. Pa. James and Margaret 
Bard were the parents of five sons, Samuel M., 
William Strong, John Orr, Thomas Orr, and 
David James, and of two daughters, Jane Orr, 
who was married first to James Breckenridge, and 
second to John Quigley, and Isabella, who died 
unmarried, October 22, 1899. The descendants of 
James and JNIargaret Bard, mIio are numerous, are 
generally distinguished in familiar speech as the 
Orrstown Bards. 

Another William Baird whose family history has 
not been traced, but whose descendants now spell 
their name Bard, bought a tract of land in Armagh 
township, Cumberland, now JNIifflin county, which 
he conveyed to his son Samuel, May 19, 1782. This 
land had previously belonged to James McBride, of 
Antrim township, Franklin county, who sold it to 



110 THE BARD FAMILY 

Isaac Bole. William Baird's wife was Jean, and the 
wife of their son Samuel was JMartha. Samuel Bard 
lived on the farm in Armagh township con\ eyed to 
him by his father, and died in 1788. His children 
were John, James, Martha, Agnes, AVilliam, Samuel, 
INIary and Hugh. The history of this family remains 
to be traced. 

There were near the close of the eighteenth cen- 
tury two Bards in the Conococheague ^"alley, 
Robert and James, whose family connections have 
not been found. Robert Bard was a taxable in 
Peters township, Franklin county, Pa., in 1786, and 
died near JNIercersburg, Pa., in February, 1818. In 
his will he describes himself as a schoolmaster and 
speaks of his son Robert, "finisher of fine hats" at 
" Lewevill " in the State of " Kaintuck," and of 
another son .Tames, a cooper, at Baltimore. Judge 
Archibald Bard was a witness to his will and Cap- 
tain Thomas Bard was one of his executors. Judge 
Archibald and Captain Thomas Bard were sons of 
Richard and Catharine (Poe) Bard. Their history is 
given in this volume in the chapter devoted to the 
descendants of Richard Bard. James Bard was mar- 
ried at JNIercersburg, Pa., March 24, 1814, to Cath- 
arine Glenn. Whether he was the son of Robert 
Bard has not been established. 

Still another Samuel Bard, perhaps a son of 
Samuel and Martha Bard, of Armagh township, 
JNIifflin county, Pa., left a numerous posterity. This 
hypothesis, unfortunately, is impaired by a tradition 
in the family which fixes the place of his birth as in 
Berks county, in 1795. The Berks county nativity 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 111 

suggests that he may have belonged to one of the 
numerous German Bard famihes of eastern Pennsyl- 
vania. It is said that he learned the tailoring trade 
in his native county, after which he went to Hunt- 
ingdon county, Pa., where he worked for a number 
of years, but subsequently removed to New Salem, 
Ohio. In 1824, he settled at Centre ville. Pa., where 
he engaged in the making of windmills. In 1837, 
he built a foundry at Centreville, which was the 
first enterprise of its kind between Pittsburg and 
Erie. He continued in the foundry business until 
his death, except for a brief period in 1843, when it 
was conducted by his son, John T. Bard. He was 
married in Huntingdon county. Pa., INIarch 8, 1814, 
to Margaret JNIcArthur, who was a native of Ireland. 
Mr. Bard and his wife were members of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church ; in early life INIrs. Bard was 
a Seceder. Samuel and INIargaret (McArthur) Bard 
had eight children. 

Issue : 

1. Mary A. Bard, married William S. Bingham; they 
had twelve children. 

2. John T. Bard, died in Centerville, Pa., in 1878. 
He was a prominent citizen of Butler county and a 
leading Democrat. He served as prothonotary of the 
county and was a Democratic candidate for Congress 
in his district. He was a member of the Democratic 
National Conventions that nominated Horatio Seymour 
and Samuel J. Tilden, and was a Presidential elector 
on the Greeley ticket, in 1872. At the time of his death 
he was president of the Centerville Savings Bank. Mr. 
Bard was married to Isabella Cross and had seven 



112 THE BARD FAMILY 

children: Austin, died young; Jackson E., a merchant 
at Centerville, Pa.; Horace E., his elder brother's busi- 
ness partner; Margaret, living at Mercer, Pa.; Zelniyra, 
married to S, F. Thompson, a lawyer at Mercer, Pa. ; 
Willbert, living at Denvei", Col.; and William B., a 
jeweler at Mercer, Pa. 

3. William B. Bard. 

4. Benjamin F. Bard, went to Iowa, and served in an 
Iowa regiment in the civil war. He was killed in the 
service, leaving a son, Hoyt Bard, and two daughters. 

5. Alpheus Bard, died young. 

6. Jane Bard, died young. 

7. Andrew J. Bard, was born in Centerville, Pa., June 
5, 1828, and was a merchant in his native town for 
a quarter of a centurv. He was a justice of the peace 
for twenty years, and postmaster under President 
Cleveland. Mr. Bard has two sons, L. L., in the hard- 
ware business at McKeesport, Pa., and Robert M., a 
painter at Slippery Rock, and two daughters, Jennie 
D. (Mrs. Bartz), and Annie M., wife of Rev. U. S. 
Bartz, of Erie county, Pa. 

8. Robert M. Bard. 

William Bard, a brother of Samuel Bard, whose 
descendants are given above, went with his brother 
to New Lisbon, Ohio, where he afterwards lived. 
He was the father of two sons, Emery A. and Har- 
mon Bard, and of two daughters. 

The names of other Bards are foimd scattered 
through the Colonial and Revolutionary records 
concerning whom it is possible at this time to give 
only some incomplete references. One Samuel Bard, 
a native of Ireland, where he was born in 1734, 
enlisted in Captain John Wright's company, May 11, 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 113 

1759, and served in the French and Indian War. 
In the Pennsyhania Line there were two officers of 
the name, 2d Lieutenant Thomas Bard, of Captain 
Calderwood's independent company, of the 11th 
Regiment, in 1777, and 2d Lieutenant WiUiam 
Bard, of the 12th Regiment in 1776. John Bard 
was a private in' Captain John Spear's company, of 
the Pennsylvania State Regiment of P^oot, in 1777. 
Robert Bard was in active service with Captain Pat- 
rick Jack's marching company, of the Cumberland 
county mihtia, in 1777, and Richard Bard served 
with Captain Joseph Culbertson's company the same 
year. John Bard ser\'ed in the marching company 
of Captain WiUiam Huston, Cumberland county 
militia, in 1778, and William Bard was with the 
same company. Later in 1778, John Bard served 
with Captain John JNIcConnell's marching com- 
pany. Stephen Bard was a priv^ate in Captain 
von Heer's dragoons, in 1779. He was living in 
Berks county, in 1885, aged eighty-one. These 
are only a few of the Bard names culled from 
the records. Some of them can be identified but 
most of them are impossible of identification. In 
recent years the name has often occurred in the 
public records. In 1870, President Grant nominated 
Samuel Bard to be governor of Idaho territory, and, 
in 1872, he nominated Samuel Bard to be deputy 
postmaster at Chattanooga, Tenn. In January, 1890, 
Henry D. Bard was appointed postmaster at Brazil, 
Ind., by President Benjamin Harrison. In con- 
junction with the name of Henry D. Bard, of 
Brazil, Ind., the following pedigree, furnished by 



114 



THE BARD FAMILY 



a lady living in Kansas, is interesting, even if not 
accurate : 

Dr. Thomas Bard, of early New York City history. 
"I believe tliese names are right." 



Henry Bard. William Bard. John. 



Settling in Ohio and at Bardstown, 
Ky. 



"Who I believe settled at 
Long Island." 



Samuel Bard. Patterson Bard. A Daughter. 



Settled at Bardspoint 
on the Hudson, near 
Tarrytown. 



Samuel Bard. 



A Daughter. 



William Bard. 



Samuel Bard. 



Abbie E. Bard. 



A Judge in Mt. Vernon. Twice elected as Rep- Married to a Methodist 

N. Y. resentative in Kan- minister— Cox. 

sas. Now living in 
Brazil, Indiana. 



XIV 



T>ARDS of German origin are an important 
-"-^ element in the population of Pennsylvania and 
Maryland, especially in Berks, Lancaster, York and 
Adams counties, Pa., and Frederick and Washington 
counties, JNld. Notwithstanding this, the name in 
simple form. Bard, appears only once in Rupp's 
"Thirty Thousand Xames." The variations are 
Bardt, Bart, Barth and Bahrt. 

The earliest names among the German Bards 
that emigrated to Pennsylvania, w^ere Johannes 
Barth, Johan Georg Bard, Zacharias Barth and 
Henry Bard. Johannes Barth emigrated on the ship 
" AVilliam and Sarah," William Hill, master, and 
was qualified before the board of the Provincial 
Council, at Philadelphia, September 21, 1727. 
Whether this Johannes Barth was identical with 
Johan Georg Bard, who was naturalized in 1734-5, 
it is impossible to say. George Bard, as the latter 
came to be called, obtained a warrant for 250 acres 
of land in Lancaster county, January 8, 1733. He 
lived in I^ampeter township, and died there in 
1768. In religion he was a lAitheran, and his name 
occurs in one of the naturalization lists of Lancaster 
county, immediately above that of his pastor, Johan 
Casper Stoever, who emigrated to Pennsylvania on 
the ship "James Goodwill," David Crocket, master, 
landing at Philadelphia, September 11, 1728. Zach- 
arias Barth was a passenger on the ship "Joyce," 

(115) 



116 THE BARD FAMILY 

William Ford, master. He was qualified at Phila- 
delphia, November 30, 1730. Henry Bard was natu- 
ralized in Philadelphia county, in IT^O. His name 
appears in a list of persons " being Quakers or such 
who conscientiously scruple to take an oath." 

George Bard was the ancestor of the Bard family 
still represented by many respectable descendants in 
Lancaster and adjoining counties. He was the father 
of three sons, Zacharias, INIichael and George, and of 
five daughters, the name of only one of whom, Bar- 
bara Bard, has been ascertained. She was married 
August 25, 1751, to Peter Ricksecker. 

Zacharias Bard, son of George Bard, of Lampeter 
township, I^ancaster county. Pa. was a member of 
Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster. Zacharias and 
Susanna Catharine Bard had eight children : .lohann 
George, born November 25, 1753; Zacharias, born 
July 20, 1755 ; Johann Philip, born March 27, 1757 ; 
Susanna Catharine, born P^bruary 5, 1759; John 
Christopher, born December 19, 1760 ; John Michael, 
born September 1, 1762; John Adam, born April 
30, 1764; and Catharine, born June 17, 1766. 

Michael Bard, son of George Bard, of I^ampeter 
township, was born in (Tcrmany. ^lay 4, 1721, and 
died in York county. Pa., January 22, 1775. He 
settled in York township, York county. Pa., where 
he possessed a large estate. After his death the bal- 
ance in the hands of his administrators was ^6,867, 
8 shillings. He obtained an order of survey for land 
in Guilford township, Franklin county, then Cum- 
berland, October 16, 1766. Bard sold this land in 
his lifetime to Barnard lleichart, but died before a 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 117 

conveyance was made and a deed to perfect title 
was executed by his heirs, January 8, 1794. He 
was a member of the York County Committee of 
Observation, 1774-75. He was buried in a graveyard 
that he caused to be set apart on his farm, at Stony 
Brook, near the crossing of the Frederick Division 
of tlie Pennsylvania railroad, where his tombstone is 
still legible. Mr. Bard was married to Dorothea 
George, who died in York county in 1795. They had 
one son, George, and two daughters, Barbara and 
Margaret. 

George Bard, son of Michael and Dorothea 
(George) Bard, was born in 1759, and died in York 
township, York county, Pa., in 1812. He was a 
prominent farmer of York, now Springgarden town- 
ship, York county. At the time of his death he 
owned 684 acres of land, situated contiguously, 
partly in Hellam and partly in York townships. He 
was executor of many estates, including that of 
Captain Michael Doudle, who commanded the first 
company raised in York county, at the outbreak of 
the Revolution. JNIr. Bard was married to Elizabeth 
Wolff, daughter of Peter and Catharine Wolff. 

Issue: 

1. Michael Bard, married and had issue: William and 
George. 

2. Catharine Bard, married , and had 

issue. 

3. George Bard, died youug. 

4. Elizabeth Bard, married Kroan, and had issue. 

5. John Bard, married and had issue. 

6. Daniel Bard, died unmarried in 18!20. 



118 THE BARD FAMILY 

7. Marv Bard, married Webb. 

8. Sarah Bard, died at York, Pa., July '2i, 1874. She 
was married to Dr. Jacob Hay, son of Jacob Hay, an eniigiant 
from Scotland, who settled in York county. Pa. Jacob Hay, 
the younger, was graduated at Princeton, and studied medicine 
with Dr. John Spangler, of York; he was graduated M.D. at 
the University of Maryland. He died at York, Pa., April, 
1875. Dr. Jacob and Sarah Hay had eight children: John, a 
successful physician, married to Sarah Danner; Mary E., mar- 
ried Rev. James A. Brown, D.D., at one time President of 
the Lutheran Theological Seniinary, at Gettysburg, and was 
the mother of Jacob Hay Brown, associate Justice of the 
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; Caroline; Lucy, married W. 
H. Davis; Jacob, William, Henry and Sarah. 

Mrs. Bard's father, Peter Wolff, was a prominent 
citizen of Manchester township, York county. Pa., of 
which he was a})pointed a justice of the peace. Septem- 
ber, 1777. He died in 179'3, his wife, Catharine, sur- 
viving him. Of his six daughters, Dorothea was married 
to Michael Ege, Ann to Peter Beckei-, Barbara to 
Peter Schmeiser, Catharine was unmarried, and Mar- 
garet married Christian Eyster. 

Adam Wolff, only son of Peter and Catharine Wolff, 
was a justice of the peace, and owned a large lumber 
yard and tannery at the village of New Holland, in 
Manchester township, York county, Pa. He founded 
the village of Mount Wolff in 185!^, and was head 
of the firm of Adam Wolff c^' Sons. George H. Wolff 
succeeded to the business. William W. Wolff was 
elected Sheriff of York county in 1863, but died be- 
fore the expiration of his term. 

Barbara Bard, daughter of Michael and Dorothea 
(George) Bard, was married to Jacob Eichelberger, 
son of JNIichael Eiclielberger, who was born in 1743, 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 119 

and died at Reistertown, I\Id., in 1832. He was 
sheriff of York county. Pa., 1804-07, and a member 
of the Pennsylvania I^egislature in 1808. Subse- 
quently he removed to Reistertown, Md. 

Margaret Bard, daughter of Michael and Doro- 
thea (George) Bard, was born in 1758, and died Sep- 
tember 1, 1845. She was married to John Spangler, 
son of Balser and Magdalena (Ritter) Spangler, who 
was born June 29, 1747, and died October 11, 1796. 
He was a zealous patriot during the Revolution, 
and was county commissioner of York county, 
1790-93. 

Issue : 

1. Zachariah Spangler, born March 10, 1TT8, was sheriff 
of York county, Pa., 1818-21, and a justice of the peace, 
1828-35. He was married to Sarah Gardner, daughter of 
Phihp Gardner. She was born November 2, 1789, and died 
November 3, 1847. Issue: Louisa M., married Colin K. Mc- 
Curdy; Alexander, Elizabeth, Julian, Hamilton G., and Sarah 
Margaret, married John Gardner Campbell. 

2. John Spangler, born Decen)ber 1, 1779, and died Octo- 
ber 4, 1841, was married May 27, 1812, to Ann Barr, of 
Maytown, Lancaster county, Pa. She was born in 1780, and 
died in 1870. Issue: Barr, William A., James, Frances, mar- 
ried Samuel Patterson; and Jane, married S. P. Sterrett. 

3. Sarah Spangler, married, first to Smyser, and 

secondly to Michael Welsh. 

4. Martin Spangler, born May 3, 1782, and died June 6, 
1863, was a tanner at York, Pa. He was married April 17, 
1810, to Lydia Gardner, who died in 1847. Issue: Eleanor, 
married Ephraim Kieffer, and John. 

5. William Spangler, born September 21, 1783, and died 
October 28, 1875, was married to Anna Marv , who was 



120 THE BARD FAMILY 

born in 1794, and died February 14, 1826. Issue: Rebecca, 
married John Getz; William Nathan; Maria; Lucy, married 
Emerson J. Case ; Edward, stage carpenter at Ford's Theatre, 
Washington, D. C, at the time ot President Lincoln''s assassi- 
nation ; Theodore ; and Leander. 

6. Rebecca Spangler, born November 24, 1787, was mar- 
ried, first to George Jacobs, and second to Eli Hendricks. Issue 
by first marriage: Margaret J., married John R. McDowell; 
Theodore and Oliver Perry. Issue by second marriage: John 
and Maria. 

7. Maria Margaret Spangler, born January 8, 1790, and 
died in 1835, was married first to Jacob Buckey, secondly to 
George Miller, and thirdly to Philip Dietrick. Issue by first 
marriage: Jacob M.; Ann M., married Charles Mantz; and 
Sarah, married Lewis G. Kemp. Issue by second marriage: 
William R. 

8. Juliana Spangler, born May 20, 1794, and died July 
14, 1854, was married to Dr. William Mcllvain, son of Cap- 
tain John Mcllvain, an officer of the York County Associators, 
in active service with the "Flying Camp," in 1776. Dr. 
Mcllvain was born in 1783, and died December 15, 1854. He 
was educated at Dickinson College, and was coroner of York 
county, 1818-21, and State Senator, 1824-27. Issue: Caroline, 
married Dr. Theodore M. Haller; Eliza Ann, married George 
Upp; Julia R., married Benjamin F. Ewell; Maria Jane, mar- 
ried Dr. James W. Kerr; Sarah C; William A.; Marv Louise; 
and John Edwin. 

The Spanglers are among the oldest and most respecta- 
ble German families of York, Pa. The emigrant ances- 
tor of the John Spangler line, Balser Spangler, was a 
son of Hans Rudolf Spangler, and was born at Weyler, 
under Steinsberg, district of Hilsbach, now in Baden, 
November 29, 1706, and died at York, Pa., in 1770. 
He emigrated to Pennsylvania in the ship "Pleasant," 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 121 

J. Morris, master, and landed at Philadel})hia, Octo- 
ber 11, 1732, and the same year he purchased a tract 
of 280 acres of land in Springettsburv Manor, in what 
is now York county. Pa. He was married at Weyler, 
April 29, 1732, to Magdalena Ritter, who died in 
1784. Their children were George, Raiser, Daniel, 
Michael, Rudolf, John, Elizabeth and Juliana. 

George I^liilip Bard, son of George Bard, of 
Lampeter township, I^ancaster county, Pa., died in 
1793. With his wife Margaret, he lived in Upper 
I^eacock township, in Lancaster county. His chil- 
dren were JNIichael, Elizabetli, John, JNIargaret, 
George, JNIary and Jacob. 

JNIichael Bard, son of George Philip and JNIar- 
garet Bard, died in 1832. He was a farmer in Upper 
I^eacock township, I^ancaster county, Pa. He was 
married to Magdalena Bear, and had two sons, Ben- 
jamin and Jacob. 

Elizabeth Bard, daugliter of George Philip and 
Margaret Bard, died April 11, 1810. Slie was mar- 
ried to Henry Gerber, of Cocalico township, Lan- 
caster county, Pa. 

John Bard, son of (Tcorge Philip and JNIargaret 
Bard, was married to Catharine Swope, daughter of 
Henry and Barbara Swope. They had one daughter, 
Catharine, who was married to David I^ebkecher, of 
Lancaster, Pa., and died in 1847. 

George Bard, son of (ieorge Philip and JNIargaret 
Bard, was born October 11, 1773, and died May 27, 
1856. He lived near Binkley's Bridge, in Ephrata 
township, Lancaster county. Pa. He was married to 
Elizabeth Swope, daughter of Henry and Barbara 



122 THE BARD FAMILY 

Swope. She was born February 10, 1784, and died 
November 5, 1850. 

Issue : 

1. Margaret Bard, born April 3. 1802, died September 
15, 1883, was married to David Kurtz. Issue: Heurv, 
Franklin, David, Susanna, Elizabeth and Fannie. 

2. Jacob Bard, born August 14, 1803, and died Au- 
gust 25, 1880, was married and had two daughters, 
Anna and Emma. 

3. Henry Bard, born December 9, 1805, and died June 
2, 1887, was a trustee of Bergstress Lutheran Church. 
He was married and had a son, George. 

4. Mary Bard, born November 7, 1807, died February 
11, 1873, was married to Henry Schreiner, who was 
born April 6, 1804, and died Bebruary 4, 1889. Issue: 
Adam, Henry, Israel and Elizabeth, married A. B. 
Schober. 

5. George Bard, born May 9, 1809, and died Novem- 
ber 13, 1873, was married December 15, 1836, to 
Caroline Shindle, who was born March 4, 1818, and 
died October 12, 1898. Issue: Margaret, Catharine, 
Susanna, Wayne, David, Mary Ann, Elias, Salinda, 
Lucy, and George. 

6. Levi Bard, born April 19, 1812, and died Novem- 
ber 2, 1896, was a farmer in West Earl townshi]), Lan- 
caster county. Pa. He was married in 1851, to Frances 
Halin, daughter of Daniel and Fanny (Shirk) Hahn. 
Issue : Mary, Jane, John Leaman, Clara Ann, Jacob 
Hahn, George Franklin, Ulysses Grant, and Carrie. 

7. Adam Bard, born January 21, 1814, was married 
and had eight children: William, George, Evans, 
Amanda, Alice, Lida, Anna and Ennna. 

8. Samuel Bard, born October 15, 1816, was married 
November 21, 1843, to Leah Stuck, daughter of George 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 123 

and Sarah (Withers) Stuck. She was born Decenilier 
31, 1824, and died Februarv 5, 1901. Issue: Susanna, 
G. WilHe, Harry S., Sarah Ann, Milton, James H., 
Laura F., Justus F., Agnes and Samuel. 

Justus F. Bard, son of Samuel and I^eah (Stuck) 
Bard, was born July 15, 1856. He is a farmer and 
justice of the peace in Upper I.,eacock township, 
Lancaster county, Pa. He was married February 1, 
1883, to L. Alice JNliller, daughter of Jacob and 
Mary (Hess) Miller. She was born June 18, 1862. 
Justus F. and Alice Bard have three children: 
Charles Miller, born August 11, 1884, Mary Hess, 
born JMay 28, 1890, and Samuel Stuck, born INIay 
6, 1897. 

Another Lancaster county family of German 
Bards is descended from Martin Bard, who died in 
middle life in 1758. His parentage has not been 
ascertained. He may have been a son of Jacob Bart, 
who emigrated to Pennsylvania on the ship "Hope" 
of London, August 28, 1733 ; of John Jacob Barth, 
a passenger on the ship "'Harle" of London, who 
landed at Philadelphia, September 1, 1736 ; of Frantz 
Ludwig Barth, who came on the ship " AVinter Gal- 
ley," September 5, 1738; of Jacob Barth, who arrived 
on the ship "Nancy," September 20, 1738; or of 
INIartin Barth, landed from the snow " Betsy," August 
27, 1739. The last named Martin Barth settled near 
what is now Littlestown, Adams county, Pa., and 
had a son, Martin. Some of his sons wrote the 
family name Bard. Martin Bard, of I.,ancaster 
county, was married at the Moravian meeting house, 
Lititz, JNIarch 11, 1746, to Eva Juliana Frantz. He was 



124 THE BARD FAMILY 

the father of seven children: JNIaria, Daniel, F^vidwig, 
Anna Catharine, JMartin, Anna Eva and John. 

Daniel Bard, son of JMartin and Eva Juliana 
(Frantz) Bard, was born February 7, 1748, and died 
in 1805. He was a Captain in I^ieutenant-Colonel 
James Ross's battalion, I^ancaster county militia, in 
1783. His wife Ehzabeth survived him; they had 
two children, Daniel and John. 

JMartin Bard, son of JMartin and Eva Juliana 
(Frantz) Bard, was born JMay 22, 1752, and died in 
1817. He was ensign in his brother Daniel's com- 
pany, Lancaster county militia, in 1783. He was a 
member of Trinity Lutheran Church, I^ancaster, Pa. 
He was married to Susanna Grubb, daughter of Cas- 
per and Elizabeth (Trubb, of Warwick township, 
Lancaster county. Pa. Their children were John 
JMartin, Casper, Susanna, JMaria JMargaret, married 
Philip Brong, Daniel, JMartin, George, Catharine, 
married Jacob Albert, Elizabeth, and JMary. 

Casper Bard, son of JMartin and Susanna (Grubb) 
Bard, was born January 27, 1781, and died October, 
1851. He lived in Newberry township, York county. 
Pa. His children were Daniel, a daughter married to 
Joshua Mowrey, Samuel, and Hannah. In his will he 
mentions a grandson John and a granddaughter Cath- 
arine; Mrs. JMowrey had two children, Elizabeth and 
Casper. 

John Bard, son of JMartin and Eva Juliana (Frantz) 
Bard, was born JMarch 23, 1757. He served with a 
I^ancaster county detachment of the "Flying Camp" 
in the Jerseys in 1776. The name of his wife was 
Elizabeth ; they had one daughter, JMaria. 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 125 

JNIartin Bard, a native of Germany, emigrated to 
Pennsylvania in the snow "Betsy," landing at Phila- 
delphia, August 27, 1739, and died in 1758. In 
Riipp's ''Thirty Thousand Names," his name is spelled 
Barth, but his children wrote it Bardt and Bard. He 
settled in CTcrmany township, in York, now Adams 
county, Pa. His wife, Sevilla, survived him only a 
few months. His will was dated January 17, 1756, 
ard proved in York county, February 4, 1758 ; the 
will of his wife was proved October 4, 1758. Martin 
and Sevilla Bard had eleven children: Peter, Philip, a 
taxable in Germany township in 1799 ; iVIartin, pos- 
sibly identical with INIartin Bard, of I^ititz, Lancaster 
county. Pa.; Barnet; Stephen; George; Paul; Fran- 
cis; Catharine; Susanna, (Mrs. Smith); and \"eronica, 
(Mrs. Hevickl). 

Peter Bard, son of Martin and Sevilla Bard, was a 
cordwainer in Frederick county, Md. His will was 
dated January 8, 1790, and proved at Frederick, Md., 
March 10, 1794. He left a wife Catharine, and six 
children: Jonathan, Jacob, Mary, (Mrs. Hartsock), 
Margaret, (INIrs. Hartman), JNladalina, (Mrs. Hart- 
sock), and Elizabeth. This family changed the spell- 
ing of the name to Beard. Jonathan Beard, the 
eldest son of Peter and Catharine Beard, died before 
his father. In his will, dated April 7, 1788, and proved 
at Frederick, Md., March 9, 1789, he named a wife 
Margaret, and issue: JMary, Peter, Philip, Christian, 
and a child unborn. 

Barnet Bard, son of Martin and Sevilla Bard, died 
in 1789. The names of his children have not been 
ascertained, with the exception of one son. Barnhart 



126 THE BARD FAMILY 

Bard. In his will, dated September 7, 1812, and 
proved at Frederick, Md., November 27, 1821, he 
named a wife Catharine, and ten children: Daniel, 
Jacob, John, Abraham, l*eter, Catharine, Juliana, 
Elizabeth, JNIagdalena, and Sarah. 

Daniel Bard, son of Barnhart and Catharine Bard, 
was born near I^ittlestown, Adams county, Pa., July 
23, 1790, and died at Brighton, 111., August 9, 1841. 
He served in the War of 1812. His children were 
Joseph, born at AA^illiamsburg, Pa., in 1826, a soldier 
in the Civil War; Isaac, born near Mansfield, O., in 
1835, and died in Chicago, 111., in 1898, leaving a 
widow, Jennie Bard; and A\"illiam F., born at Brigh- 
ton, 111., in 1838, lives in Chicago. William F. Bard 
married and has issue: George R., born at Moline, 
111., July 1, 1866, and is a real estate dealer in 
Chicago; William F., born January 19, 1871; iNIin- 
nie, born JNIarch 12, 1875; and Charles A., born July 
22, 1877. 

Stephen Bard, son of JNIartin Jind Se villa Bard, 
died in 1782, leaving a wife Catharine. In liis father's 
will, his name is written Stevin. He was a soldier of 
the Revolution, serving with the troop of light dra- 
goons raised by Captain Bartholomew ^"on Heer as a 
provost guard for General Washington's army. 

George Bard, son of JNIartin and Sevilla Bard, died 
in 1768. He lived at Abbottstown, in what is now 
Berwick township, Adams county. Pa. In his will, 
dated August 26, 1768, and proved November 7, 
1768, he named a wife Barbara, and eight children: 
Barbara, Susanna, Anna JNIaria, John George, Catha- 
rine, JNI agdalena, Paul, and JNIariles or Elizabeth. 



A CHRONICLE OF THE liARDS 127 

Barbara Bard, born in April, 1752, was married to 
George I^eisser, and went to Oliio. Paul Bard, born 
in April, 1765, had a son Cieorge, Elizabeth Bard, 
born in August, 1768, was married to Christian Dick, 
of Abbottstown, and had a son, George Dick. 

Francis Bard, son of INIartin and Sevilla Bard, 
died in 1788. He owned a homestead in CTcrmany 
township, York, now Adams county. Pa., that was 
sold by his administrator, by order of the court, for 
the payment of his debts. The property was sold 
to George Unger for ^203. Francis Bard had two 
sons, John and Francis. John Bard died before his 
father, leaving a daughter, Catharine, and a son, 
John. Francis Bard, the younger, was administrator 
of his father's estate. 

The ancestor of another Frederick county, JNld., 
family of German Bards was Xicklaus Bard. He 
emigrated to Pennsylvania on the ship " Edinburgh," 
James Russel, master, landing at Philadelphia, 
August 13, 1750. His name is spelled Bard in 
Rupp's " Thirty Thousand Names," and it is tlie 
only instance of this spelling of the name in the 
voluminous lists printed in that work. It has not 
been ascertained whether he had other children be- 
sides his son John, who wrote his name Beard. 

John Beard, son of Nicklaus Bard, the emigrant, 
was a wagon-maker in Frederick county, JNId., and 
owned a farm of eighteen acres that he called 
"Wagon Wheel." He gave his land to his two 
eldest sons, Nicholas and John, who were to divide 
with the other children, share and share alike. At 
the time of his death his children were all minors. 



128 TUB BARD FAMILY 

His will was dated August 26, 1763, and proved 
February 19, 1764, with his father as his executor. 
He left a wife, Clora, and a son JNlichael, besides 
Nicholas and John, and other children. 

Nicholas Beard, son of John and Clora Beard, 
was a private in Captain William Heyser's company 
of the German regiment, commanded by Baron 
Arendt. He had a son, Andrew Beard, probably 
among other children, whose son, George Beard, 
died at or near Chews ville, JMd., February 28, 1873. 

John Beard, son of John and Clora Beard, was a 
Revolutionary soldier; he enlisted in Washington 
county, JMd. 

Michael Beard, son of John and Clora Beard, was 
probably identical with Michael Bawart, who was 
a private in Captain W'^illiam Heyser's company, of 
the German regiment, conmianded by Baron Arendt. 

Frederick Beard, whose parentage is not ascer- 
tained, but who was probably a grandson of Nick- 
laus Bard, was born at JNIechanicstown, P^rederick 
county, Md., November 1, 1767, and died in 1842. 
He served in the Revolution, part of the time in 
the Commander-in-Chief's guard. About 1810, he 
removed to I^iberty township, Adams county. Pa., 
where he owned 2,500 acres of land at Fountaindale. 
He was married to Margaret AVeigle. 

Issue : 

1. Jacob Beard, went to Alichigaii, in 1848. 

2. John Beard, went to Janesville, Oliio. 

53. Samuel Beard, lived at Fountaindale, Adams county, 
Pa. Issue: Lewis, George, Jessie, Josiah, Reuben, Levi, 
David, Rachel, and Julia Ann. 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 129 

4. George Beard, died in November, 1843. He lived 
in Liberty township, Adams county, Pa. He was 
married to Sarah Minta, and had, among other children, 
Daniel Beard, who was born July 8, 1822. Daniel 
Beard went to Illinois as a young man and settled in 
McLean county, but returned to Adams county, Pa., 
in 1861, and made his home in Highland township. 
He was married, first, November 11, 1847, to Barbara 
Kelly, who died March 29, 1882, and second, April 
8, 1886, to Catharine Haldeman. Among his children 
by his first marriage were Charles E., Virginia and 
Henry Foster. 

5. David Beard, killed on the "Tapeworm" railroad, 
in 1838. 

6. Frederick Beard, settled in Chambersburg, Pa. 

7. Elizabeth Beard, married Siter. 

8. Mary Beard, married Lum. 

9. Magdalena Beard, married, first, John Carr; second, 
Kelly. 

10. Margaret Beard, married John Mclntyre. 

All eastern family of German Bards presents an 
interesting example of the illusive difficulties that 
confront the Pennsylvania genealogist. It is de- 
scended from Jacob Bart, who emigrated to Penn- 
sylvania on the ship " Hope," of London, landing 
at Philadelphia, August 28, 1733, and died in Cole- 
brookdale township, in Berks county, in 1760, In 
his will, which was dated April 9, 1760, and proved 
September 3, 1760, his name was written Bart. The 
name of his wife was Dorothea, but whether she 
was Dorothea Eisenman, daughter of Michael and 
Catharine Eisenman, is uncertain. JNlichael Eisenman 
died in Windsor township, Berks county, in 1772. 



130 THE BARD FAMILY 

The beneficiaries named in his will were his brother's 
son, Nicholas ; Peter Eisennian's daughters, Eliza- 
beth and Catharine, and Jacob Bart's children, but 
there is no clue to the relationship of the Bart 
children to the testator. Jacob and Dorothea Bart 
had four sons: John, who was married to a daughter 
of George Philip Miller, of Bethel township, Berks 
county ; Jacob, of whom nothing has been learned ; 
Martin, w^ho died in 1812, leaving a widow, Selina; 
and Michael, who died in 1814, leaving a wife, 
Catliarine, and two sons, John and Daniel. 

Another eastern Pennsylvania family of German 
origin is descended from Michael Bardt, a native of 
the Palatinate, who landed at Philadelphia, October 
10, 1794. He settled near The Trappe, in what is 
now Providence township, Montgomery county. Pa. 
He w^as married in Germany, and was accompanied 
to Pennsylvania by his wife, and according to tradi- 
tion, their three eldest sons. Only one of his chil- 
dren, Michael, has been identified. Mrs. Bardt died 
in 1758. 

JNIichael Bard, son of Michael Bardt, the emigrant, 
died in 1800-01. When he left the paternal home at 
The Trappe, he settled in Robeson township, Berks 
county. Pa. He was married in June, 1758, to 
Susanna Sprogel, daughter of John Henry Sprogel, in 
his day a prominent man in what was then Philadel- 
phia county. Michael and Susanna Bard had ten 
children: Adam, Samuel, Elisha, Hannah, Jeremiah, 
Christina, Ezekiel, Sarah, JNIark and Amos. 

Adam Bard, son of Michael and Susanna (Sprogel) 
Bard, was appointed first lieutenant of Captain Wil- 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 131 

liam Lewis' company in the fifth battahon, Berks 
County Associators, May 17, 1777- In the "Penn- 
sylvania Archives," his name is sometimes spelled 
Beard. He was appointed captain of the third com- 
pany of the third battalion, Berks county militia, 
May 19, 1780. 

Samuel Bard, son of Michael and Susanna (Spro- 
gel) Bard, was born in Robeson township, Berks 
county. Pa., and became a farmer near College ville. 
Pa, He was noted as a mechanical engineer and 
built many of the bridges in Montgomery county. 
Mr. Bard was the father of ten children: Michael, 
William, Ezekiel, Susannah, Eliza, Samuel, Hannah, 
Christian, Elisha and Jesse. 

Ezekiel Bard, son of Samuel Bard, removed to 
Salem, O., about 1840. Among his children were 
Ephraim, Jesse and Frank 1*. Bard. 

Elisha Bard, son of Samuel Bard, lived in Berks 
county, Pa. He was married to Catharine Umstead, 
daughter of Harmon and Ann Umstead ; they had a 
son, JNIark Bard. 

Jesse Bard, the youngest son of Samuel Bard, was 
born in 1809. He settled at Alliance, Stark county, 
O., where he died in 1895, His children were Edwin 
C, Topeka, Kan.; Thomas H., Alhance, O.; Allen 
C, Chicago, 111.; Sarah F. (Mrs. Bishop), Ames, 
la.; Jennie, Ames, la.; and Emma (Mrs. Romero), 
Chile, S, A, 

Mark Bard, son of Michael and Susanna (Sprogel) 
Bard, died in 1825, He was a wagoner between Phil- 
adelphia and Pittsburgh, Mr, Bard was married to 
Mary Glass; they had seven cliildren: Samuel, a 



132 THE BARD FAMILY 

blacksmith at Middletown, Pa.; Hannah, married 
Henry Huyette, of near Birdsboro, Pa.; Anna, mar- 
ried Jacob Wicklein, of Reading, Pa.; Isaac, a ham- 
merman at the Lebanon forge; Ehsha, a blacksmith 
at Fritztown, Berks county. Pa.; INIary, married Jacob 
Hawke, of Reading; and Jeremiali. 

Jeremiah Bard, or Beard, son of jNlark and JNIary 
(Glass) Bard, was born in Robeson township, Berks 
county. Pa., August 20, 1819, and M^as reared by his 
uncle, Ezekiel Bard. He was a carpenter, and was 
foreman of the wood works of the Schuylkill Canal, 
and later of the E. i<c G. Brooke Iron Works. During 
the civil war, he was an assistant revenue assessor in 
Berks county. He was a justice of the peace for 
Union township, 1835-63, and was at one time biu-- 
gess of Birdsboro. Mr. Beard was married October 8, 
1840, to Rebecca Searles, daughter of John Searles, 
of Birdsboro; they had five children: Ellen, Alice, 
Emma, Harry and Sydney L. 

Amos Bard, or Beard, son of INlichael and Susanna 

(Sprogel) Bard was married to Clevenstine, 

dauirhter of Henry and Sarah Clevenstine, of Berks 
county. Pa. He liad two children, Henry and Keziah. 

Henry Beard, son of Amos Beard, was a merchant 
in early life, and later ran a line of boats on the old 
Schuylkill Canal. He was married to Elizabetli War- 
ren ; their children were Augustus, Mary, Catharine, 
Elizabeth and Amos H. 

Amos H. Beard, son of Henry and L],lizabeth 
(Warren) Beard, was born near Birdsboro, Pa., 
November 30, 1844. He served five months in Com- 
pany I, 194th Regiment, P. V., and was afterward a 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 133 

merchant and later in the employ of the Philadelphia 
& Reading Railroad. He was elected a member of 
the Reading Common Council in 1889, and served in 
the Select Council for many years, becoming its presi- 
dent. He was married to Kate E. Hippie ; their 
children were Elmer E., William, Kirk A., Harry 
W. and Elizabeth M. 

The last representative immigrant of the Hard 
name in the eighteenth century was John Louis 
Barde, who was born in Switzerland in 1756, and died 
at Birdsboro, Berks county, Pa., in 1799. He was 
educated at the Royal JNIilitary ^Vcademy, Woolwich, 
England, and entered the British army as a subaltern. 
He served with the expedition against the Spaniards 
in their attack upon Pensacola in 1779. He subse- 
quently sold his commission, and coming North in 
1782, he became a citizen of the United States. In 
1788 he settled at Birdsboro, in Berks coimty. Pa., 
where he bought Hay Creek Forge in 1796. Mr. 

Barde married Farmer, daughter of Major 

Robert Farmer, English (Governor of West Florida. 

Issue : 

1. Samuel Barde, died uninarried. 

2. Ann Barde, married Matthew Brooke, son of Matthew 
and Frances Brooke, of Limerick township, Montgomery county. 
Pa. She had two sons, Edward and George, who succeeded to 
the Barde estate at Birdsboro, and three daughters, one of 
whom became the wife of the Hon. Hiester Clymer. 

The Brooke family is descended from John and Frances 
Brooke, English Friends, who came to Pennsylvania 
from Yorkshire, Eng., in 1692. Before leaving Eng- 
land, John Brooke hought 1,500 acres of land to he 



134 THE IJARD FAMILY 

located anywhere between the Delaware and Sustjue- 
hanna Rivers. With his wife and two sons, James and 
Matthew, he landed on the Jersey side of the Delaware, 
below Philadelphia, but both he and his wife died soon 
after landing, and were buried at Haddonfield, N. J. 
His sons took up a tract of land inider his grant in 
what is now Limerick township, Montgomery county^ 
Ph. 






XV 



^^HE Bairds of the counties Antrim and Down, 
-•- in the north of Ireland, were reserved for the 
closing chapter of this "Chronicle of the Bards," 
because of their appositeness in the discussion of the 
ancestry of the Bards of Carroll's Delight. Neither 
the most painstaking research nor the most careful 
study of the facts unearthed from the Public Records 
of Ireland has so far resulted in the settlement of the 
problem. In this work of research and study, none 
of the Barde, Baird or Beard families of whom any- 
thing could be learned escaped scrutiny. What made 
the task especially difficult was the fact that for a 
long time no name presented itself as one upon 
which to concentrate an accumulation of nebulous 
knowledge. Even family names, so often useful in 
tracing genealogies of ancestors submerged by change 
of country and lapse of time, were found illusive in 
their suggestions. It seemed to be fated that the 
ancestral Bard, or Baird, or Beard, who went from 
England or Scotland to Ireland, and from there after 
two or three generations transplanted to America 
the founder of virile stock, should be nameless. 

The later generations of many American families 
have lost the names of their emigrant ancestors. It 
was so with the descendants of Archibald Beard, of 
Carroll's Delight. Even a Pennsylvania genealogist 
of some authority, the late Dr. William Henry Egle, 
called him Bernard Bard in a biography of his son 

(135) 



136 THE BARD FAMILY 

Richard, and this false name was accepted as the 
true one by some of his great-grandchildren, in spite 
of the fact that one of his grandsons and one of his 
great-grandsons bore the name of Archibald. 

In Ireland, after a faithful search, the Scotch 
name of Archibald failed to reveal any connection 
with the Bards of Carroll's Delight, or the Bairds of 
Kilhenzie or Auchmedden. Indeed, it was found in 
only one family — that of William Baird, of Grange, 
on the Foyle, in County Tyrone. Hopeful as this 
clue seemed, no connecting links could be discovered. 
The name of the eldest son of Archibald Beard, of 
Carroll's Delight, was Richard. Only one Richard 
Beard was found in Ireland in the ancestral period. 
This is the Richard that went to Ireland, about 1630, 
under Francis Blennerhasset, an English undertaker 
in the barony of Lurg, County Fermanagh. He was 
still living in 1659, when he owned an estate in the 
parish of Galloon, which was partly in County Mono- 
ghan and partly in County Fermanagh. At that 
time the people on his estate were eleven in number, 
but no trace has been found of his posterity. 

Richard Bard's first-born — the son that was killed 
by the Indians in 1758 — was named John Bard. 
This fact suggested to the compiler of this Chronicle 
an inquiry into the history of the John Bairds in the 
counties of Antrim and Down who were possible 
ancestors of Archibald Beard. The earliest of these 
was the Rev. John Baird, or Beard, who went to Ire- 
land in 1642 as chaplain of Colonel Campbell's 
Scotch regiment, and preached before the first Irish 
Presbytery at Carrickfergus. He was ordained min- 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 137 

ister at 13ervock, but later he returned to Scotland. 
His descendants are known and consequently his 
name must be eliminated from the ancestral list. The 
Rev. John Baird, of Dervock, was followed to Ire- 
land by a number of Johns in the latter half of the 
seventeenth century, among whom were several 
heads of families. The surname Baird is adopted as 
a uniform spelling in this place, but in the documents 
in the Record Office of the Four Courts, Dublin, it 
is as often written Beard as Baird. Among these 
were John Baird, a merchant, probably in Belfast, in 
1 67*2, as appears by a Bill in Chancery, dated Novem- 
ber 3, 1677; John Baird, parish of Derryloran, 
(Cookstown), County Tyrone, whose will was dated 
September 4, 1714, and who left a widow and two 
sons — James and John; John Baird, place of resi- 
dence not given, whose wife Eleanor obtained letters of 
administration on his estate. May 6, 1717; John Baird 
(Barde), of Dromore parish, County Down, whose 
will was proved June 22, 1720; and John Baird, of 
Skeog townland, Dromore parish, County Down, 
whose will was proved July 4, 1734. In none of these 
families w^as any ancestral claim found to be probable. 
Richard Bard's second son, the eldest born after 
Mrs. Bard's return from capti\Mty, was named Isaac. 
Isaac Bard's younger brother, Judge Archibald Bard, 
named one of his sons Isaac, and his uncle, William 
Bard, the founder of Bardstown, Ky., also gave the 
name of Isaac to his youngest son. Thus it is seen 
that Isaac was a family Christian name in this Bard 
family. At the same time that iVrchibald Beard, the 
emigrant ancestor of this family, owned and con- 



138 THE BARD FAMILY 

ducted a mill in Hamiltonban township, York, now 
Adams county. Pa., Isaac Baird, was a miller in 
Broadisland parish, County Antrim, Ireland. This 
may be merely a coincidence, but even as a coinci- 
dence it is worthy of being placed upon record in 
this place. Broadisland parish, now known as Tem- 
plecorran, is situated on Lough Larne, on the road 
from Belfast to Larne, five miles nortlieast of Carrick- 
fergus. Its situation increases tlie importance of the 
coincidence of Isaac Baird's residence there in 1763 
and earlier, as will be shown hereafter. At tliat time 
Isaac Baird was evidently an old man, as he was dis- 
posing of his leases in the parish. 

It is, however, to Judge Archibald Bard, second 
son of Richard Bard after the return of JNIrs. Bard 
from captivity, and grandson and namesake of Archi- 
bald Beard, of Carroll's Delight, that we owe the only 
real clue to the ancestry of the family that has yet 
been found. On the flyleaf of an old book, he left a 
brief record of his lineage in scriptural form, beginning 
with himself: "Archibald Bard, which was the son of 
Ricliard, which was the son of ^Vrchibald, which was 
the son of David, which was tlie son of ^^^illiam." As 
regards these additional names traditional usage has 
been followed in the families of the descendants of 
Archibald Beard. The emigrant ancestor's second son 
was William, and his youngest son was David. Wil- 
liam Bard had a son named David, and one of the elder 
David Bard's grandsons was William. Richard Bard 
also gave the name of William to one of his sons, 
who died in childhood. Thus we see the law of family 
Christian names preserved through three generations. 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 139 

The names of William Beard and David Beard 
appear in juxtaposition only in the northeastern par- 
ishes of County Antrim. Their names appear in con- 
junction in 1669 in a hearth money roll of Glenarm, 
in Carncastle parish, County Antrim, for one hearth 
eacli. This parish of Carncastle, or Castle-Cairn, is 
situated on the shore of the North C^hannel, which 
forms its eastern boundary, and upon the road from 
Larne to Glenarm and the royal military road from 
Belfast to the Giants' Causeway. It is only three 
miles northwest by north from Larne, and within 
easy reach of the parish of Broadisland or Temple- 
corran, in which Isaac Baird was living half a century 
later. It is fully within the line of reasonable possi- 
bility that William Beard, of the Hearth Money Roll, 
was the father of David, and that David Beard was 
the father of Archibald Beard, of Carroll's Delight. 
This assumption is met, howe^ er, by some conflicting 
but, perhaps, not irreconcilable facts. In 1724, David 
Beard served as a delegate to the (General Synod of 
Ulster at Dungannon with the Hev. James Creighton, 
Presbyterian minister at Glenarm. Was he the David 
Beard of the Hearth Money Roll of 1669? It is pos- 
sible, but it seems imlikely. In 1716, when John 
Beard died at Glenarm, the administration bond of 
his widow Ellinor was signed by David Beard and 
James ^Vilson. This David was probably a son of 
John and Ellinor Beard, of Glenarm, and the Presby- 
terian elder of 1724. In 1722, a David Beard died in 
the parish of Donegore, in the barony of Upper 
Antrim, County Antrim. This parish is a few miles 
east by north of the town of Antrim. Jane Beard, 



140 THE BARD FAMILY 

his widow, was his administratrix. Her sureties were 
WiUiam and Robert Beard, probably her sons. AVil- 
ham Beard died in the parish of Ballyeaston, near 
Ballyelare, county Antrim, in 1743, and Robert 
Beard in Donegore parish in 1746, Martha Beard 
being his administratrix. That WiUiam and Robert 
Beard were brothers is indicated by the fact that 
Robert was Wilham's administrator, and that they 
were of the Glenarm family is suggested if not 
proved by the coincidence that the administration 
bonds of both .Tolin Beard of Glenarm, and David 
Beard, of Donegore, were witnessed by the same per- 
son, William Carroll. A similar coincidence came in 
the nex*: generation, Henry Marmion being the wit- 
ness to the administration bonds both of William 
Beard, of Ballyeaston, and James Beard, of Creagno- 
gan, county Antrim, who died in 1750, leaving a son, 
John Beard. That W'^illiam and Robert, and, per- 
haps, James Beard were brothers of Archibald Beard, 
of Carroll's Delight, is probable but "not proven." 

James Baird, a grandson of Klder Da\'id Beard, 
lived at Cilenarm until 1905, when he died at a very 
advanced age. It was his belief that if Archibald 
Beard, of Carroll's Delitrht, belontyed to the Glenarm 
family he was married not at Glenarm but at Coal 
Island. Mr. Baird could give no explanation of this 
belief, but it is often found in the vague traditions of 
families that latent memories of migration exist long 
after all actual knowledge of them has been obliter- 
ated. The truth of James Baird's belief can be sup- 
ported by probabilities, even if it can not be proved. 
Coal Island is a post town in the center of the Tyrone 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 141 

€oal field, on the roads from Dungannon to Ballin- 
derry and from Lurgan to Stewartstown. It is noted 
for a canal three miles in length from the river Black- 
water, which it joins near Lough Neagh. In this con- 
nection it is noteworthy that John Dren and George 
Littell, two of the sureties on the bond of John 
Beard, as administrator of his father, James Beard, of 
Creagnogan, were both of the parish of Killead, 
which is situated four and a half miles south of the 
town of xVntrim, on the road to I^urgan, and for eight 
miles on the west is bounded by Lough Neagh. Thus 
we see that this family of the Beards of Ulster was 
scattered from the North Sea to the Blackwater. The 
importance of this fact will be all the more manifest 
when we come to discuss the marriage of Archibald 
Beard in the Potter Sketch in " The Bard Kinship." 

It is not improbable that the father of William 
Beard, of the CTlenarm Hearth INIoney Roll of 1669, 
was David Bard, of Island JNlagee. In the so-called 
•'Depositions of 1641" there are abstracts of the 
examination of a number of persons, including Kath- 
arine Bard, wife of David, concerning the murder of 
Phelemy McGee and his family in Island Magee, in 
one of which it is said that after McGee had been left 
for dead he was sheltered by David Beard, but that 
he was killed the next day. From this David Bard or 
Beard the family name of David has been preser\ ed 
in the Beard family of County Antrim until the 
present time. There is a David Baird who keeps a 
public house in Ballywee, but unfortunately he knows 
nothing of his ancestors. Ballywee is in Kilbride 
parish, adjoining Donegore. James Baird owns New- 



1452 THE BARD FAMILY 

mills Mills, in Bally wee, and resides at Holestone, 
and his brother, John Baird, lives in Ballywee. John 
Baird's ancestors have been settled at Ballywee for 
fully a century and a half as he found, in pulling down 
an old building, a stone with F. B, (Francis Baird) 
and 1769 on it. This stone he has built into the pillar 
of his avenue gate. John Baird knows nothing about 
his family, except that they came from Ayrshire in 
Scotland at the time of the Plantation of Ulster. 
Besides these Bairds there is a Widow Baird at 
Craighall, in Donegore parish, whose son, David 
Baird, is a small farmer. The widow and her son live 
in a small thatched cottage. 'J^hey know nothing 
about their history, except that the family has been 
at Craighall for several generations and came there 
from near Newmills, in the borders of Donegore 
parish. This accords in some measure with the tradi- 
tions of the Bairds of Grange, in County Tyrone. 
INIr. Andrew Baird, the present owner of Aughter- 
moy, near Dunamanagh, told the compiler of this 
"Chronicle" in 1902 that his family was at Creighcor 
before going to the Foyle. A^^hether he meant 
Craighall or Creagnoghan or some other place it is 
impossible to conjecture in view of the marvelous 
orthography of the names of places in Ireland. 

As to the ancestry of the Bards of Carroll's 
Delight, nothing that is certain is known; the fore- 
going speculations are given not as a settlement of 
the question but as facts and conjectures that may 
aid in future research. 



PART II 

BARDS OF -CARROLL'S DELIGHT" 

A RCHIBALD BEARD, the emigrant ancestor 
■'^^^- of the Bards of "Carroll's Delight," was a 
son of David Beard, and a grandson of William 
Beard. He was probably born in County Antrim, 
Ireland, and was presumably of Scotch antecedants. 
Among his possible Scottish forebears was William 
Baird, of Ballateur, parish of Lewrie, Dunbarton- 
shire, who died May 6, 1606, leaving a wife, Mar- 
garet Drew, sons David and Alexander, and a 
daughter, Janet. Archibald Baird, of Mekill Govane, 
died in October, 1596. These include family names 
among Archibald Beard's descendants in America, 
found in Scotland just previous to the Plantation 
of I^^lster. The same family names in County An- 
trim, Ireland, before Archibald Beard's emigration, 
together with a discussion of his ancestry, are given 
in the last chapter of "A Chronicle of the Bards." 

In Scotland the family surname has been written 
Baird for many generations. In Ireland, for a century 
and a half after the Plantation it was oftener written 
Beard than Baird. The American family, whose 
genealogy follows, has adopted the uniform spelling 
— Bard — , but Archibald, the emigrant ancestor, 
wrote his name Beard, and his second son, William, 
signed a deed, on record in Franklin county. Pa., 
Baird. His eldest son, Richard, was always Bard 

(143) 



144 THE BARD FAMILY 

when he wrote his own name, but it was often Baird, 
or Beard, when his name was written by others. 
The later orthography was in fact only a return 
to the earher. From the thirteenth to the sixteenth 
century the customary speUing was Bard, or Barde. 
The name was Bard on the Ragman's Roll, In 
Maybole, the modern Bairds were " the sept of the 
Bardes." When writing came into general use the 
orthography of family names assumed eccentric 
forms. The simple name Bard became Biard and 
Bierd in the Public Records as well as Baird and 
Beard ; it was sometimes written Berd instead of 
Bard. Such variations in the spelling of a family 
name, easily understood at the time of their use, 
could not fail to result in obscurity and doubt after 
the lapse of many years. ^Vith tlie descendants of 
Archibald Beard the return to the simpler form of 
the name had serious results, and for a while the 
emigrant ancestor was an imknown quantity in the 
equation of the family. Indeed, for a long time the 
first of the family in America was lost to sight 
altogether, and to a stranger was accorded the seat 
of honor under the spreading branches of the 
Family Tree. 

AVhen the researches that resulted in this history 
were first undertaken, the compiler, like an eminent 
Irish genealogist. Sir Ednumd T. Bewley, in another 
case similar to this one and, perhaps, akin to it, was 
entirely "free from any preconceived ideas, and in- 
deed, from any preliminary knowledge." There were 
no traditions among the living Bards that pointed to 
Archibald Beard, of " Carroll's Delig-ht," as their 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 145 

emigrant ancestor; indeed, there was no knowledge 
that he even had existed. There were no known 
family records relating to him. Although it was 
afterward found that he had left a numerous pos- 
terity, divided into three distinct branches, his de- 
scendants had little or no knowledge of each other, 
or of their ancestry. In the task of finding the l^ard 
ancestor and learning his history, the only hope was 
in chance references in printed hooks and in scattered 
entries in the Public Records. 

To make the quest all the more difficult, the late 
Dr. William Henry Egle, with the enthusiastic but 
indiscriminating zeal of the amateur genealogist, 
made an erroneous statement that was not only mis- 
leading, but that proved mischievous. In a brief 
sketch of Richard Bard, as a member of the Penn- 
sylvania Convention that ratified the Federal Con- 
stitution, Dr. Egle said that his father, Bernard 
Bard, settled and built a mill on Middle Creek, in 
what is now Adams county. Pa. Lhifortunately, this 
mistake was printed in an authoritative historical 
journal*, and thus acquired acceptance and vitality 
that rendered a mere denial insufficient for its cor- 
rection. To counteract the effects of the blunder it 
became necessary tliat the truth in regard to Ricliard 
Bard's parentage should" be established by proofs 
that would be accepted as evidence in a judicial pro- 
ceeding in a coiu't of law. These pi-oofs need not be 
summed up in this place. They will be found in 
almost every line of this history of Archibald Beard. 

After his emigration to America, Archibald Beard 

*Pennsylvania Magazine of History, Vol. X. p. 4.5-2. 



146 THE BARD FAMILY 

settled in Delaware. In a record of the Hamilton 
family, compiled by the late A. Boyd Hamilton, of 
Harrisburg, it is noted that John Hamilton, the son 
of John and Isabella Potter Hamilton, was buried 
October 17, 1741, "at Archibald Beard's, in Miln 
Creek Hundred, Newcastle county, Del." Hamilton 
came to America on the ship "Dunnegall" with his 
brotlier-in-law, John Potter, arriving at Newcastle, 
September 2.5, 1741, Isabella Potter Hamilton died 
the day after their arrival. The affiliations of the 
Hamiltons, Potters and Bards, after the emigration, 
were very close, but the most exliaustive research 
has failed to reveal a complete explanation of their 
relationship. 

Nothing has been ascertained concerning the resi- 
dence of Archibald Beard in Delaware, beyond the 
reference to it made by A. Boyd Hamilton, who, 
unfortunately, failed to mention the source of his 
information. The cause of his removal to "Carroll's 
Delight" is easily explained. Among his neighbors in 
Miln Creek Hundred was Jeremiah I^ochery, the 
ancestor of the Lochery family of western Pennsyl- 
vania. Beard and Lochery agreed to join with two 
others, John ^Vitherow and James McGinley, in the 
purchase of a tract of 5,000 acres of land from Daniel 
Carroll, of Duddington Manor, in Prince George's 
county, Md., which Carroll had obtained under a 
grant from Lord Baltimore. To this tract was gi\ en 
the name of "Carroll's Delight." It was in every way 
worthy of the name. It is a beautiful sweep of coun- 
try between the Sugar I^oaf and Jack's Mountain, in 
the western part of what is now Adams county, Pa. 



148 THE BARD FAMILY 

On tlie south and fbnninf)- ji part of the tract is 
Mussehiian's Hill. It is coursed by a number of 
swift-running streams that have their sources in the 
mountains on the north. One of tliese, INlud Hun, on 
which Mr. Beard built a mill, comes out of a moun- 
tain gorge at the base of the Sugar Loaf, and forms a 
junction with Middle Creek, east of Musselman's 
Hill. Another stream a mile to the westward, Tom's 
Creek, conies out through a gorge at the ^^"estern 
Maryland Railroad horseshoe, on the eastern side of 
Jack's Mountain. Still another stream, which winds 
around the base of the mountain on the west and 
south from Fountaindale, is Miney Branch, which 
joins Tom's Creek near Mason and Dixon's Line. 
All of these streams water the splendid vale that 
Beard, Lochery, A\ itherow and McCiinley bought 
from Daniel Carroll, in 1741. From the moiuitain 
heights the views fully justify the name given to the 
tract by the original grantee — "Carroll's Delight." 

Beard, Lochery, A\ itherow and McCiinley divided 
their extensive purchase to suit themselves. Beard's 
part was in the forks of Middle Creek, northeast of 
the present village of Fairfield. ^Vrchi[)ald Beard 
executed a bond to AVilliam \\ augh, dated May 19, 
1758, conditioned for the conveyance of 800 acres 
of land, "part of a tract in Carroll's Delight which 
said iVrchibald and partners bought from Charles 
Carroll. " The purchase price that AA^augh agreed 
to pay was twenty-two poimds ten shillings, sterling, 
per hundred acres, making in round numbers $880 
— for the plantation. No deed appears to have been 
executed in Mr. Beard's lifetime. W^illiam Waugh, 



HARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 149 

Sr., assigned the bond to William \\^augh, Jr., March 
4, 1770, and the elder Waugh executed a deed to liis 
son, March 21, 1770, for the land. This deed con- 
tained a recital charging tliat William Rush "did 
in a fraudulent and clandestine manner obtain from 
Charles Carroll, Esq., of Annapolis, a deed for part 
of said land adjoining his own (Rush's) plantation, 
notwithstanding all said land was purchased long 
before of said Charles Carroll by Archibald Beard 
& Co., and notwithstanding said land was in my 
quiet possession many years before said William 
Rush obtained a deed for it, as above mentioned." 
The Waugh title was held to be valid and the family 
of N^'^illiam A\'^augh, Jr., lived on the land for many 
years afterward. 

William Wau<jjh was anion^ the early if not the earliest 
farmers in tlie Marsh Creek Settlement. His wife, Jane, 
died in 1770. The date of his death has not been 
ascertained but he died at an advanced ajjce. 
Samuel Waugh, son of William and Jane Waugh, was 
a tanner in Hamiltonban township. He was married to 

Douglass; their children were John, James, 

Isaac, Samuel, \ancy and Jane. Nancy Waugh married 
William Gilson and Jane Waugh married William 
Richardson. 

John Waugh, son of Samuel Waugh, removed to Mer- 
cer county. Pa., in 1789. He was twice married : first, 
to Martha Kennedy, and second, to Sarah Mutchmore. 
By his first wife he had a son, Samuel Waugh, and a 
daughter, Ida Waugh, the artist. Issue by his second 
wife: Mary, Agnes, Sarah, Samuel, Elizabeth, Rachel 
Hannah and John. 
James Waugh, son of Samuel Waugh, died at New 



150 THE BARD FAMILY 

Wilmington, MerctT countv. Pa., in 1815. He was 
appointed a captain in the Sixth Regiment, Pennsyl- 
vania Line, February 15, 1777, and became supernu- 
merary, June 21, 1778. By his wife, EHzabeth, he had 
seven children: William, Sallie, Polly, Juliet Ann, 
James, Alexander Power and John. His sons, James 
and Alexander P., and his grandson, Williani, son of 
James, were prominent in business and political life in 
Mercer county. 

Samuel Waugh, son of Sanuiel, died at Hogestown, 
Cumberland county, Pa., January, 1807. He was pas- 
tor of Silvers'' Spring and Monaghan Presbyterian 
churches, 1782-1807. Mr. Waugh was married April 
14, 1783, to Eliza Hoge, daughter of David Hoge, 
Escj., of Hogestown. Among his children were Eliza 
(Mrs, Burd), and Samuel. 

David Waugh, son of ^^'^illiam and Jane \Vaugh, was 
born in 1736. and died November 26, 1816. He was 
a farmer in Hamiltonban townshij), Adams countv. Pa. 
His wife, Jane, was born in 1746, and died August 17, 

1816. Issue: W,illiam ; , married John Kyle; 

Mary, married Robert McJimsey; Margaret, married 
Zaccheus Patterson, and had a son David; Nancy, mar- 
I'ied James Kyle; John; Jane, married Rev. John Coul- 
ter; Sarah, married Rev. John Hutchison, and Anna, 
married John McCracken. 

William Waugh, son of William and Jane Waugh, 
lived on the old Bard homestead, in " Carroll's Delight," 
which he received by deed from his father. He had a 
daughter Elizabeth, and a son Willianj, 
John Waugh, son of William and Jane Waugh, was 
married to Susan Moffat; \hc\ had seven children: 
James, Samuel, William, John, Marv, Susan and Nancy. 
William Waugh, son of David or of William Waugh, 



BARDS OF "CARROLL'S DELIGHT" L51 

had, probably among other children, David \Vaugh, 
born in 1790, and died December 2, 1815; Jane 
Waugh, wife of John Harper, who died February 21, 
1819; and Amelia Waugh, died March 17, 1820. 

Ill 1762, caveats were entered in the Land Office 
of Pennsylvania against granting warrants for the 
lands in "Carroll's Delight." The Carroll grant no 
longer had any ^'alidity except as an equity, but 
Rush's claim to the Waugh tract seems to have 
given the sons of the other purchasers some uneasi- 
ness, and William Lochery obtained a deed from 
Charles Carroll, December 14,1764; Amos McGin- 
ley, December 20, 1770, and William Witherow, 
June 12, 1771. These deeds are on record in Fred- 
erick county. JMd. The deed to McGinley recites 
that — "Daniel Carroll, late of Duddington Manor, 
in Prince George's county, by his last will and testa- 
ment, dated April 12, 1735, did release unto his 
sister Mary the right to part of ten thousand acres of 
land lying at the mouth of Monocace in Frederick 
county by which he was entitled to half of two 
tracts of land, one called Carroll's Delight and the 
other called Carrollsburg, each 5,000 acres; and did 
authorize Cliarles Carroll, party to these presents to 
sell his share or moiety ; and whereas Charles Carroll 
is entitled to the other share or moiety, the said 
Charles Carroll for himself and by power under the 
will of Daniel Carroll had for and in consideration of 
five pounds bargained and sold to said Amos Mc- 
Ginley all the remaining part of the tract of land 
already by him sold called Carroll's Delight lying in 
Frederick county, be the same more or less." This 



15i2 THE BARD FAMILY 

deed is signed Charles Carroll and is witnessed by 
Charles Carroll of Carlton and William Deard. 
Appended is a receipt for "forty shillings, sterling, 
as an alienation fine on the within mentioned land, 
quantity supposed to be 1,000 acres" by order of 
John Morton Jordan, Esq., his Lordship's agent. 

By a deed dated February 19, 1765, Archibald 
Baird (Beard) conveyed to Richard Baird his title 
to a tract of land containing 121 acres, known as 
the Mill Place, on Middle Creek, in Hamiltonban 
township, Adams county, then York, and 80 acres 
in "Carroll's Delight," adjoining the Mill Place, 
conditioned for his support during his life. The 
conveyance was to become void if Richard failed to 
fulfill its conditions. The deed, whicli is on record 
in tlie Recorder's office, in York county, contains 
this declaration: "The aforesaid bargain and sail 
according to its general and particular meaning to 
stand and remain as much in force and virtue in law 
as if it were worded most consistent with law by 
any council learned therein." In the body of the 
deed the names of Archibald and Richard are spelled 
Baird, but the signature is Archd. Beard. Archibald 
had previously, April 2, 1761, conveyed a part of 
his land in "Carroll's Delight" to his son William, 
William executing a mortgage for the purchase 
money. Mention of this transaction is made in the 
conveyance from Archibald to Richard. Richard 
Bard sold the mill place to James Marshall, and 
William sold his land to Colonel Robert McPherson, 
for whom it was surveyed in 176.5. This land was 
subsequently bought by Ebenezer Finley and the 



BARDS OF -CARROLL'S DELIGHT" 153 

Rev. John jMc*Kiii<J'ht, D.D. Finley was a son of 
William Finley, and a nephew of the Rev. Samuel 
Finley, of Princeton. Dr. INlcKnight was pastor of 
Lower Marsh Creek Presl)yterian Church, 17H3-89. 
and afterwards associate pastor with the Rev. Dr. 
Rodgers, of the United Presbyterian congresfation, 
of New York City. His farm was culti\'ated for him 
by the members of his Marsh Creek congregation. 

Archibald Beard's earliest warrant for his Middle 
Creek lands, outside of "Carroll's Delight," was for 
100 acres. This tract was siu'veyed to him January 
18, 174*4. His holdings under this and other warrants 
comprised an extensi\'e plantation. A deed between 
Richard Baird, of Peters township, county of Cum- 
berland, and Hugh Dun woody and Samuel Moor, 
dated December 22, 1774, on record in York county, 
recites Archibald's warrant for 50 acres in the forks 
of Middle Creek, known by the name of Boly Place, 
bearing date about 1762, by \'irtue of which there 
was surveyed and laid out to Richard Baird, by 
Archibald McClean, Deputy Siu'veyor, the quantity 
of 318 acres. This deed is signed Richard Bard. 

Hamiltonban township, of which Archibald Beard 
was one of the pioneers, was an original township of 
York county, at its creation, in 1749. In the early 
records of the county its name is often written Ham- 
ilton's Bawn. It was evidently named after Hamil- 
ton's Bawn, a village in the parish of Mullaghbrack, 
County Armagh, Ireland, so-called from the bawn 
built in 1619, by John Hamilton, to whom the 
district was granted at the Plantation of Ulster. 
John Hamilton, of the Bawn, was a son of Hans 



154 THE BARD FAMILY 

Hamilton, minister of Diinlop, in Ayrshire, Scotland, 
and a brother of James Hamilton, first \ iscount 
Claneboy. Nearly allied with the Hamiltons of the 
Bawn was Captain Hance Hamilton, an early settler 
and prominent citizen of York county. Pa., and a 
distinguished soldier in the French and Indian Wdr. 
Captain Hamilton lived in that part of the original 
township of jNIenallen, York county, that is now 
Franklin township, Adams county, which adjoins the 
township of Hamiltonban. His influence, no doubt, 
was potent in the choice of the name. That Archi- 
bald Beard united with Captain Hamilton in giving 
the name of Hamilton's Bawn to the township in 
which he settled is likely from family affiliations if 
not because of actual kinship. 

Archibald Beard also obtained a I'roprietary war- 
rant, October G, 1762, for a tract of land in what is 
now Quincy township, Franklin county. Pa. This 
land he conveyed to his son, VA^illiam, No\ ember 20, 
1704. and William sold it to his brother Richard, 
December 21, 1707. The deeds, which are on record 
in Franklin county, are only noteworthy for the 
variations in the spelling, Archibald signing his name 
Beard and \Villiam signing his Baird. When Richard 
sold the land he signed the deed "Richard Bard," 
which became the accepted spelling. This tract was 
afterward claimed by John Toms, who owned the 
site of Tomstown, but it was finally acquired by 
Samuel Hughes and became part of the Mont Alto 
property. Its exact situation can be determined by 
the accompanying draft of a survey made for Samuel 
Hughes in 1810. The original survey, according to 



BARDS OF "CARROLL^S DELIGHT" 



155 



the declanitions of William Bard, was made for his 
father by Colonel John Armstrong. It must have 
been among the surveys destroyed by fire in Colonel 
Armstrong's office, in Carlisle. 




^ Archibald Bard's Grant 

That another tract of land in the same locality, 
which Richard Bard sold to Daniel Hughes, brother 
of Samuel, and his partner, in the firm of 1). & S. 
Hughes, IMont Alto, may not be confounded with 
the Archibald Beard grant, the transaction is noticed 
in this place. This purchase was for land, the location 
of which had been lost. Bard consequently accepted 
from Hughes the following obligation : 

I promise to pav Richard Beard or order the sum of 
Fifty pounds Current Money of Pennsylvania on the 
Eleventh dav of July next — It being in full of a tract 



156 THE BARD FAMILY 

of land bought of him adjoining Adam Cook t\: one 
Kneeper in Antrim township. Surveyed of a certain 
James Scot the 26th of May, 1763 — containing 59 
acres with allowance. Provided me nor my heirs do not 
see fit to relincjuish the said purchase and reconvev the 
said tract of land unto the said Richard Beard or his 
Heirs in the same manner he conveyed it to me on or 
before the said eleventh day of July next. In witness 
whereof I have hereunto set me hand and seal this 
fourth day of September, 1794. 

Witness: Daxiel HrcmEs. 

Joseph Dunlap. 

Jas. Dunlap. 

It is endorsed : 

June 24, 1795. Its agreed bv the parties that the 
exchange of the deed ^: })ayment mentioned in the 
within obligation shall extend over to the first of Sep- 
tember next in order that further search may l)e made 
to locate the land. 

Rd. Bard. 

Danl. HicaiEs. 

Archibald Beard, it may be assumed, spent the 
last years of his life at tlie homestead of his son 
Richard in Peters township, Franklin comity, Pa., 
and died there. The date of his birth is unknown, 
and the year of his death would have been lost to his 
prosterity but for one of those fortuitous accidents 
that enter so largely into genealogical research. After 
Samuel Hughes purchased the Quincy land that had 
belonged to three of the Bards he wrote to his lawyer, 
Thomas Hartley Crawford, Esq., then practicing his 
profession at Chambersburg, directing the attorney 



BARDS OF "CARROLL'S DELIGHT" 157 

to put tlie Beard, Haird and Bard deeds on record. 
Tlie letter was preserved witli the Hughes papers and 
returned to Samuel Hughes. It was exhumed as a 
part of the genealogical search for material for this 
liistorv of the Bard family, when it was found to 
contain this endorsement, presumably in the hand- 
writing of Judge Crawford: "Archibald Bard, the 
grandfather of the Judge, died in February, 1765; 
the Judge was born in April, 1765." At the time 
this endorsement was penned Archibald Bard, grand- 
son of Archibald 15eard, was an Associate Judge of 
Franklin county. It is tlie only record of the month 
and year of the death of the pioneer that has come 
down to his posterity, and it is worthy of a place, 
side by side, with Judge Bard's genealogy of the 
family, written on the fly-leaf of an old book: "Arch- 
ibald Bard, wliich was the son of Richard, which was 
the son of Archibald, wliich wa^ the son of David, 
which was the son of ^^^illianl." 

Mr. Beard was married in Ireland, if not at Coal 
Island, as the tradition of James Baird, of Glenarm, 
has it, probably in southern Ulster, in the neighbor- 
hood of the Blackwater. The name of his wife has 
not been ascertained but she may have been a sister 
of Martha Potter, wife of Captain John Potter, the 
first sheriff of Cumberland county. Pa. There is 
reason to believe that she died on "Carroll's Delight" 
before the conveyance of Boly Place and the Mill 
Place to Richard Bard. In that case, she was prob- 
ably buried in the graveyard of the "Lower Marsh 
Creek Presbyterian Church," in what is now High- 
land township, Adams county. Pa,, but her great- 



158 THE BARD FAMILY 

grandcliildren and great-great-grandchildren liave ap- 
parently no means of ascertaining the place of her 
sepulture, or of marking it for her posterity, after 
more than a century and a half of tbrgetfulness. 

Issue : 

1. Richard Bard, born February 8, 1736; died February, 
1799. (See Descendants of Richard Bard.) 

2. William Bard, born June 7, 1738; died July 31, 1802. 
(See Descendants of William Bard.) 

3. Bard, a daughter; she died in early girlhood. 

4. David Bard, born in 1744; died March 12, 1815. (See 
Descendants of David Bard.) 

The (juestion of the relationship of the Bards and the 
Potters, which is very ijitricate, is reserved for the Pot- 
ter sketch, in I'art III, "The Bard Kinship/' 



DESCENDANTS OF RICHARD BARD 

I 

"OICHARD BARD, son of Archibald Beard, or 
-*-*' Bard, was born February 8, 1736, and died 
February 22, 1799. He was reared on "Carroll's 
Delight," near Fairfield in York, now Adams county. 
Pa. On JNIud Run, the main tributary of Middle 
Creek, the elder Bard built a mill, perhaps the first 
that supplied the wants of the people of the JNIarsh 
Creek settlement. In this early mill young Richard 
learned the trade of a miller, and to the dwelling 
house on the Mill Place he took his young wife to 
live soon after their marriage. This primitive mill, 
which was built of logs, was burnt by the Indians in 
1758. It was afterward rebuilt, and was long known 
as Marshall's Mill, but it is now called Virginia 
Mills. The situation is a romantic one. There, in a 
cleft of the mountain at the base of Sugar Loaf, a 
child was born to the young couple and they lived 
in comparative safety until April 13, 1758, when 
their house was attacked by a party of nineteen 
Indians. There were in the house at the time of 
attack, Mr. Bard, his wife and child; Thomas Potter, 
a cousin, who had come on a visit the evening before ; 
Hannah McBride, a little girl, and Frederick Fer- 
rick, a bound boy. The savages were discovered by 
Hannah ]McBride, who was at the door. The girl's 
warning caine too late to enable Bard and Potter to 

(159) 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 161 

prevent a rush into the house. One Indian directed 
a blow at Potter with a cutlass, but he wrested the 
weapon from his enemy's hand and attempted to 
strike down the savage with the cutlass. The point 
struck the ceiling, which turned the sword so as to 
cut only the Indian's hand. In the meantime Bard 
seized a horseman's pistol, that hung on a nail, and 
snapped it at the breast of one of the Indians, but 
there was tow in the pan and it did not go off. See- 
ing the pistol the Indians ran out of the house. Dur- 
ing this scrimmage an Indian at the door shot at 
Potter, but only wounded him in one of his little 
finger. 

Although the door of the house was closed after 
the Indians ran out there was really no hope for the 
little garrison. The roof of the cottage was thatched, 
and could be easily fired. There was plenty of mill 
wood near at hand that could be piled against the 
house to put it in a blaze. The supply of powder 
and lead at hand was exceedingly meagre. The num- 
ber of Indians in the attacking party was so great as 
to make the contest a very unequal one. These con- 
ditions disposed the beleagured inmates to surrender 
on a promise that their lives should be spared. After 
the surrender the house was pillaged and the mill 
burned. Two men, Samuel Himter and Daniel Mc- 
Manimy, who were working in a field nearby, and a 
lad, William White, who was on his way to the mill, 
were added to the party of captives. 

The Indians that captured the Bard family were 
Delawares— savages of the most degraded type. For 
many years they had been held in subjection by the 



162 THE BARD FAMILY 

Iroquois, by whom they were spurned as women. 
It was only two years before that they had dared to 
remove tlie petticoat and declare themselves men. 
They were as treacherous as they were cruel, and all 
the more bloodthirsty because they had been so long 
debarred from killing. In the murder of their pris- 
oners they were, perhaps, not different from other 
Indians, but the killing of infants before the eyes of 
their mothers seems to have been a special attribute 
of Delaware ferocity. The war parties that desolated 
the Conococheague Valley were especially addicted 
to the practice, and the band of savages that pushed 
across the Blue Ridge and captured the Bard family 
comprised some of the most debased warriors of a 
debased nation. In spite of tlieir promises to tlieir 
captives they had gone only a short distance from 
the dismantled house and burning mill when tliey 
killed Thomas Potter. The place where Potter was 
murdered is still pointed out by people living in the 
neigliborliood. A large tree, surrounded by other 
giants of the forest, marks the spot. A great change 
has been wrought in the landscape since that fatal 
morning a century and a half ago. According to 
tradition a copse of young trees grew where now 
only one remains to spread its branches over the 
ground made sacred by savage ferocity. And the 
hand of civilized man has added its touch of utilita- 
rian sacrilege to tlie scene. Between the site of the 
house from which the captives were led and the 
copse where Potter was tomahawked and scalped 
there are now the broken walls of part of an aban- 
doned viaduct of the old "Tape \A'orm" railroad. 




The Potter Oak. 



164 THE BARD FAMILY 

Beyond the Memorial Tree, which may fall any day 
from the blows of the woodman's axe, are a rude foot 
bridge and traces of a straggling rail fence. Only the 
Sugar Loaf can be expected to remain from age to 
age to testify to the pathetic truth of the description 
contained in two stanzas of a quaint ballad, written 
by Richard Bard. and preserved by his descendants: 

Not far, however, did we go 

Ere came we to a hill. 
Where they our cousin Potter's blood 

Inhumanly did spill. 

Those hardened savages did act 
As though they did no wrong. 

And in his head a tomahawk left. 
And brought his scalp along. 

On the South mountain, three or four miles from 
the mill, one of the Indians sunk the spear of a tom- 
ahawk in the child's breast, and, after repeated blows, 
scalped it. In Richard Bard's ballad is this descrip- 
tion of the inhuman murder of the infant : 

Out of my arms my child they took, 

As we along did go, 
And to the helpless babe they did 

Their cruel malice show. 

Both head and heart the tomahawk pierced, 

In order him to slay, 
And then they robbed him of his clothes, 

And brought his scalp away. 

Heckewelder relates a similar incident of the 
French and Indian War as having occurred on the 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 165 

Conococlieague, in which Glikhickan, a famous Del- 
aware chief, was the murderer. This man was emi- 
nent as a warrior and a counsellor, and as an orator 
he was never surpassed among the Indians. Among 
the captives of one of his war parties was a woman 
named Rachel Abbott, with a sucking babe at her 
breast. Annoyed by the incessant crying of the child, 
Glikhickan sunk his tomahawk into the innocent 
creature, while the mother, in an agony of grief and 
with her face suffused with tears, vainly begged that 
its life might be spared. This wretch afterward be- 
came a model Christian Indian, and Heckewelder re- 
lates, with Moravian simplicity, that the woman "was 
kindly treated and adopted, and some years afterward 
married to a Delaware chief of respectability, by 
whom she had several children, who are now living 
with the Christian Indians in Upper Canada." 

The Indians who made the foray upon Bard's 
mill, with their prisoners, moved over the South 
Mountain and passed through the Mont Alto Gap 
into the Cumberland Valley. The journey is a toil- 
some one even now. Some of the gorges are still 
almost impenetrable. Many of the declivities retain 
the wild grandeur of 1758. For the men among the 
captives the tramp from Bard's mill to Mont Alto 
must have been painful, bringing them hungry, foot- 
sore and weary to the broad valley that they were yet 
to traverse before they could obtain a few hours of 
such repose as Indian warriors vouchsafed to their 
prisoners. For Mrs. Bard, stricken with a mother's 
grief over the death of her child at the hands of the 
most inhuman of men, the tortures of these first few 



166 THE BAKU FAMILY 

hours must have been such as few women liave ever 
endured, either before or since. What was to follow 
makes her one of the heroines of history. 

After leaving Mont Alto the course of the sav- 
ages northward bore toward the east. They passed 
near the head of ^the Falling Spring and crossed the 
Conococheague below Scotland. The reasons for 
detour are apparent. Fort F^oudon was occupied by 
a strong garrison, commanding both the Gap above 
Mercersburg and the entrance into Patli ^"alley. 
The people of the Antietam and the East Conoco- 
cheague below Chambersburg were alert, and the}' 
would quickly have carried word of the presence of 
Indians to the fort. Fort Chambers was in the direct 
line of march of the returning foe, but the knowledge 
of Colonel Chambers' famous swi\ els had inspired a 
healthy fear among the savages. Under the circum- 
stances the farthest way round was the nearest wa>' 
home for the marauders. In their eagerness to reach 
the Kittochtinny Mountains before night they were 
not disposed to risk a battle. Even the time neces- 
sary to make captives was inopportune that day. 
This is shown in the experience of Albert Torrence. 
Torrence lived near the bend of the Conococheague, 
northwest of the village of Scotland and southeast 
of Greenvillage. The Indians, with their captiv^es, 
passed his house after crossing the creek. Seeing him 
out they shot at him without effect, but refrained 
from pursuing him or attacking his house. Judge 
Bard, in his "Narrative of the Captivity of Richard 

Bard," speaks of him as Halbert T. . There 

can be no doubt of his identity, however, as his plaur 



BARDS OF "CARROLUS DELIGHT" 167 

tation on the Conococheague was on the Hne of 
march chosen by the savages at the place where it is 
certain that they crossed the stream. He died in 
1776. An illustration of Judge Bard's peculiar spell- 
ing is found in its application to his son Albert, 1st 
lieutenant of Captain John Ilea's company, 8th bat- 
talion, Cumberland County Associators, who is called 
Halbert Torrence in the "Pennsylvania Archives," 
as' well as Albert. 

It is not likely that the march of the Indians from 
the crossing of the Conococheague at Torrence's was 
in a direct line to old Fort McCord, where they 
arrived late in the evening. There was a road at the 
time, since known as the "Old Loudon Road," that 
could ha\'e been utilized for the greater part of the 
distance, but this road was the main highway for 
travel westward and to Fort Chambers and the Poto- 
mac. In spite of these apparent dangers, the Indians 
and their weary prisoners probably passed over it, turn- 
ing from it to enter the Gap above McCord's Fort. 

Fort McCord was situated near Bossert's Mill, in 
Hamilton township, Franklin county, on land now 
owned by 'Squire Bossert. Its exact site was six 
rods south of Mr. Bossert's barn, and three or four 
rods east from the public road leading from Upper 
Strasburg to St. Thomas. It was a private fort built 
in 1755-56, by William McCord, who was a settler 
on the Bossert land before 1745. It was built of 
heavy timber sunk deeply into the ground, but it 
was already in ruins M^hen Richard Bard and his wife 
were conducted past it on that April evening in 
1758. In spite of its strength it was captured and 



168 THE BARD FAMILY 

burnt by the Indians, April 4, 175G, and all its 
inmates, twenty-seven in number, were killed and 
scalped. At that time Dr. Jamison, surgeon of Col- 
onel John Armstrong's battalion, was murdered in 
the fort or its neighborhood. Three parties went in 
pursuit of these Indians, one of which, under Captain 
Alexander Culbertson, overtook them at Sideling 
Hill and was disastrously routed, Captain Culbertson 
being among the killed. 

The gap above Bossert's, now known as Yankee 
Gap, had been the objective point of the all day 
tramp over the South Mountain from Bard's Mill, 
and across the Cumberland Valley. For a first day's 
march the distance was very great. As the bird flies, 
it was fully thirty, and by the detour, scarcely fewer 
than forty miles. By a fire in the mountains, which 
their captors accorded them at their first encamp- 
ment, the weary and famished captives could not fail 
to sleep the sleep of exhaustion. To a day of horrors 
and pain were added other sufferings and horrors, 
especially for the Bards, husband and wife, that only 
the ingenuity of savagery could devise. Richard 
Bard in his ballad thus describes the first night of 
the captivity: 

But forty miles now having gone, 

This day is at an end ; 
They halt, and here to stay this night 

Is what they do intend. 

And here, the fire and us between. 

Our infant's scalp they place; 
Thinking that while we viewed the same, 

Our sorrows would increase. 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 169 

Tlie prisoners were bound for the night, but with 
the dawn of the following morning they were 
luibound and again started on their painful journey. 
They passed through Yankee Gap into Bear Valley; 
from there into upper Horse Valley, and across the 
second mountain into Path Valley. Even at this day 
this part of the Kittochtinny range is exceedingly 
rugged and almost inaccessible. Bear Valley has 
always been especially forbidding. In 1850, it was 
visited by "Pilgrim" of one of the Chambersburg 
papers. "What a dismal place this Bear Valley is," 
he wrote. " The sun is ashamed to show his hand- 
some face in some parts of it. It seems fitted for 
nothing I know of but the raising of night owls for 
Whig processions." AVhat must it liave been like in 
April, 1758! 

Path A^alley must have been crossed in the neigh- 
borhood of Carrick. A beautiful valley it is when 
clothed with verdure, but even now it is toilsome 
enough if crossed on foot. Here a new danger con- 
fronted the captives. The Indians discovered they 
were pursued and hurried to the top of the Tuscarora 
Mountain, threatening to tomahawk their prisoners 
if attacked. On the top of the mountain they 
stopped to rest. Bard and Hunter sat down side by 
side. \A^ithout any previous warning an Indian sunk 
a tomahawk into Hunter's head, and after repeated 
blows killed and scalped him. This was the third 
murder after the capture. 

The party did not tarry long on the Tuscarora 
Mountain after the murder of Hunter, and that night 
encamped a few miles north of Sideling Hill. All 



ITO THE BARD FAMILY 

day the line of tra\'el was a pathless one, o\'er rugged 
mountains and dismal valleys, thick with under- 
growth and coiu'sed by cold and tiu'bid streams that 
had to be waded. The only contemporary account of 
the sufferings of the captives that day is contained 
in tliree stanzas from Richard Bard's ballad : 

Bv reason of the rugged road 

Our raiment it all tore. 
And down our legs the blood doth run, 

Unfelt the like before. 

Whilst on the dismal road I think, 

With wondering filled am I, 
How it could be that my poor wife 

Could cross those mountains high. 

P'or I myself did almost faint 

Under their cruel hands; 
But it was God that strengthened us. 

Against their hard commands. 

This course was a necessity to tlie Indians. As 
has already been shown they could not reach the old 
Kittanning trail by way of the I^oudon and Cowan's 
gaps. They were debarred from the entrance to 
these by the fort at the base of Mt. Parnell. Through 
them ran the road that had been cut along Sideling 
Hill for Braddock's use in 1755. The road itself, 
even after it was within reach, was impracticable 
because parties from the garrison at Fort Loudon 
were not unlikely to be encountered at any moment. 
It was, therefore, necessary to keep north of the New 
Road, but not so far north as to be reported to 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 171 

parties from the garrisons at Fort Lyttleton or Fort 
Sliirley^that 'might chance to be patroUing the old 
Indian path. Thus the encampment of the second 
night was at a place of comparative safety. 

The niarcli of the third day was over the moun- 
tains and through the valleys near the present 
boundary line between Huntingdon and Bedford 
counties, and across the rich valley, drained by the 
Raystown branch of the Juniata into Blair's Gap. 
This day half of Bard's face was painted red, showing 
that a council had been held and that his captors 
were equally divided on the question of putting him 
to death. Up to this day the Indians were only bent 
upon killing. It is a sign of the softening influence 
of safety even upon the minds of savages that 
now that the forts of the Juniata were behind them 
and Fort Bedford far to the south of them some 
of Richard Bard's captors were willing to spare 
his life. 

On the fourth and fifth days the march westward 
was over the Alleghenies. Mr. Bard, in his ballad, 
left a graphic, if homely, picture of the Indian war- 
halloo in the Allegheny hills, on the fourth day. 

As we ascend this lofty hill, 

No wonder we"' re amazed 
To hear the awful sound that's made 

AVhen war-halloos were raised. 

For evei-y scalp and prisoner gained, 

A loud halloo they make: 
As if it were their great delight 

A human life to take. 



172 THE BARD FAMILY 

Tliat night a snow fell and as the prisoners were 
not permitted to approach the fire as they lay on the 
mountains, their condition made it a night of great 
distress. The dawn brouglit no surcease of suffering : 

When in the morning we arise, 

"March on" by them we'i'e told; 

But this to us is misery great, 
Our feet being sore and cold. 

On the fiftli day Stoney Creek, in the Alleghenies, 
was reached. AVhile crossing the creek. Bard's hat, 
which had been appropriated by the savage that 
had him in charge, was blown from the Indian's 
head, and tlie Indian went some distance down 
stream to recover it. AVhen he returned Bard was 
across the stream. This incensed the Indian, who 
at once began to beat his prisoner with his gun, 
nearly disabling Bard from traveling any farther. 
He was, besides, guilty of another offense, the story 
of which he relates in his ballad: 

At Laurel Hill we found a creek 
Both high and swift the stream, 

So by the hand I took my wife. 
To help her o'er the same. 

But for this love I showed to her 

At me they^-e in a rage. 
And nothing else but me to beat. 

Their anger can assuage. 

So great the strokes the cruel foes 

Have given to me here. 
That for ten days the bruises do 

Exceeding plain appear. 



BAKDS OF "CARROLi;S DELIGHT" 173 

The load to carry which they here 

Did give to nie this day, 
I an account will minute down. 

From truth I will not stray. 

Two bear skins, very large indeed. 

And one bed ([uilt also. 
Two blankets and six pounds of meat, 

All on my back must go. 

Because of liis disabled condition and almost cer- 
tain death in the near future, Bard then determined 
to try to make his escape at the first opportunity. 
Mrs. Bard had been kept separated from her hus- 
band during the whole of the five days' journey. 
That evening, howe^'er, they were permitted to assist 
each other in plucking a turkey. This afforded him 
a chance to connnunicate his design to his wife, and 
as it turned out she was able to assist him in getting 
away unobserved. A favorite divertisement of the 
Indians in camp was to dress some of their number 
in the clothes of their female captives. On this 
evening one of the captors was amusing the others 
l)y dressing himself in Mrs. Bard's gown. While 
this amusement was in progress, Mr. Bard was sent 
to the spring near the encampment for water. Just 
as he reached the spring Mrs. Bard began to take 
part in the fun and succeeded in concentrating the 
attention of the Indians upon the gown so completely 
that they forgot all about their prisoner. These 
precious moments were utilized by Richard Bard 
in getting into the bush. Presently a cry was raised 
from another fire — "Your man is gone." A rush was 



174 THE BARD FAMILY 

made for the spring, and one of tlie Indians, picking 
up the can in which Bard was to have brought the 
water, cried out — "Here is the quart, but no man." 
A search for the escaped prisoner was at once be- 
gun, but although it was continued for two days 
it was imsuccessful. 

The spring from which Richard Bard escaped 
is still pointed out on the farm of John McGee, 
about a mile west of Homer City, in Indiana county. 

AVhen the fruitless search for Bard was abandoned 
the Indians resumed the march with their prisoners. 
They went down the Stoney creek to the Allegheny 
river, and thence to Fort Duquesne. They remained 
at the fort only one night, and then went to an In- 
dian town about twenty miles down the Ohio, wJiere 
Mrs. Bard was severely beaten by the squaws. From 
this place they took their prisoners to "Cususkey," 
— Kaskaskimk, on the Beaver, This was Glik- 
hickan's town. Here MclNIanimy was put to death 
after being horribly tortured. The two boys and 
the girl, Hannah JNIcBride, were detained here, but 
Mrs. Bard was sent to another town to become an 
adopted relation in an Indian family, and never saw 
them again until they were liberated. In every town 
she entered, Mrs. Bard was unmercifully beaten by 
the squaws, and even after she \vas taken into the 
council house two Indian women entered and struck 
her. It was contrary to usage to strike a prisoner 
in the council-house and the warriors were angered 
at these acts of the squaws. 

After the women had been rebuked for their dis- 
orderly conduct, a chief took Mrs. Bard by the hand 



BARDS OF "CARROLL^S DELIGHT" 175 

and delivered her to two men to take the phice of 
a deceased sister. Slie had not been with her new 
relations a month when they determined to go to 
the head waters of the Susquehanna. This was a 
painful journey for a woman in her condition. She 
had not yet recovered from the fatigue of the long 
march over the mountains that followed the capture, 
and was still suffering from tlie extraordinary strain 
to which she had been subjected. Her feet were sore 
and her limbs swollen. Fortunately, for her, one of 
her adopted brothers gave her a horse, which enabled 
her to make the start with comparative comfort ; but, 
one of the pack-horses dying, she was compelled to 
surrender hers to supply its place. Upon arriving at 
her destination, after having traveled, in all, about 
500 miles, she was overcome by a severe fit of sick- 
ness, the result of fatigue, and cold and hunger. For 
two months she lay ill without much prospect of 
recovery. She had no companion in whom she could 
confide, or who could sympathize with her in her 
distresses. The cold earth in a miserable cabin was 
her bed. A blanket was her only covering. Her 
only food was boiled corn. She thought herself on 
the verge of dissolution ; but in spite of discourage- 
ment and suffering she recovered, and began to look 
forward with hope and longing to her rescue from 
captivity. 

Soon after her recovery she met a captive woman, 
whom she had previously known, who, like Rachel 
Abbott, had an Indian husband and had borne him 
a child. From this woman slie learned that as soon 
as their captive women learned to speak the Indian 



176 THE BARD FAMILY 

tongue they were obliged to accept an Indian Inis- 
band, with death as the only alternative. This in- 
formation determined Mrs. Bard never to learn the 
language of the Delawares, and she persisted in her 
resolution during the entire period that she remained 
a captive. 

Richard Bard, after his escape, managed to elude 
his pursuers by concealing himself in a hollow log. 
The tradition is that his place of concealment was 
McKonkey's cliff, at the bridge below Homer. 
When the Indians, who were in search of him, had 
gone by and were out of hearing, he resumed his 
flight in a different direction. His situation was per- 
ilous, and because of his condition he made his way 
with great difficulty. Soon after beginning his return 
he came to a mountain overgrown with laurel and 
cov^ered with snow. He was almost exhausted. He 
was without food, except a few buds, plucked from 
the trees as he went along. His shoes were worn out. 
The country was very rough, and in many places the 
ground was covered with poisonous briars which 
lacerated his feet and poisoned the wounds. His feet 
and legs became swollen, and in his weak condition, 
impeded as he was by the snow which lodged on the 
leaves of the laurel, he was rendered unable to walk 
and was compelled to creep on his hands and knees 
under the branches. Besides, he feared tliat the In- 
dians might still be in pursuit of him, and would be 
able to find his tracks in the snow. In spite of the 
danger of discovery, it became imperative that he 
should lie by until his feet healed sufficiently to 
enable him to m alk. On the fifth day after liis escape. 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 177 

as he was creeping about on his hands and knees in 
search of buds and herbs to appease his hunger, he 
found a rattlesnake, which he killed and ate raw. In 
the ballad quoted above he gave a description of 
these five days of starvation and suffering in the 
M ilderness : 

Though Fin not able now to walk, 

I creep upon my knees: 
To gather hei'bs that I may eat, 

My stomach to appease. 

A rattlesnake, both flesh and bone, 

All but the head I eat; 
And though "'twas raw, it seemed to me 
Exceeding pleasant meat. 

By using a thorn as a needle, Bard was able to 
puncture the festering wounds in his feet and thus 
allay the swelling. Then, tearing up his breeches, he 
bound up his feet as well as he could, and in this 
forlorn condition he resumed his journey, limping 
along with great pain. He had no alternative except 
to die where he was. His condition at this time is 
illustrated by a delusion that was the result of the 
excitable state of his nerves. Soon after resuming his 
journey he was startled by the sound of a drum. He 
called as loud as he could but there was no answer. 
His imagination had played him a trick. 

Just before dark on the evening of the eighth day 
after his escape Mr. Bard came to the Juniata. His 
only way of crossing the stream was by wading it, 
which, because of his lameness, was accomplished 
with great difficulty. The night was cold and \'ery 



178 THE BARD FAMILY 

dark. His clothes were wet. In liis beiiuiiibed con- 
dition he was afraid to he down lest he sliould perisli. 
Wearied and lame as he was he determined to pur- 
sue his journey, but during the night he was 
attracted by the sight of a fire, apparently abandoned 
the day before, probably by a party of settlers who 
were in pursuit of the savages. Here lie remained 
mi til morning, when he discovered a path leading in 
the direction of the settlements. Besides a few buds 
and berries his food up to this time liad consisted 
only of rattlesnakes, of whicli altogether, he had 
killed and eaten four. Although he liad found the 
first one "exceeding pleasant meat.' one is tempted 
to believe that this unusual diet was beginning to 
pall upon him. But fortunately, he was nearing the 
end of his journey. He was destined, however, to 
undergo one more alarm before he reached a place of 
safety. At a turn in the path, in the afternoon, he 
suddenly found himself face to face with tliree 
Indians. They proved to be friendly, and conducted 
him to Fort Lyttleton, which he reached on the ninth 
day after his escape. These Indians were Cherokees, 
who had come from \ irginia to assist in the defense 
of the frontier of Pennsylvania and JNIaryland. 

In April, 1758, forty of these Indians arrived at 
Fort Loudon barefooted, without match-coats and 
without arms. Colonel Armstrong wrote to (iover- 
nor Denny, calling attention to their destitution and 
asking that the Provincial Council pro\ide for them. 
The Governor applied to Sir John St. Clair, his 
Majesty's quartermaster general, to order the needed 
arms and match-coats, and a little leather to make 



BARDS OF -CARROLUS DELIGHT" 179 

moccasins, but Sir John answered curtly that the 
Assembly and people of this province had such sin- 
gular and unreasonable notions of Indians, particu- 
larly the Cherokees. that he would have nothing to 
do with the matter. (io\'ernor Denny then sent a 
message to the Assembly asking to be enabled to 
supply the needs of the Indians. Wliether the Chero- 
kees went away saying. "We came to you naked, 
and you clothed us not." is not set down in history,, 
but it is certain that three of the party succored 
Richard Bard. 

At Fort Lyttleton, Bard was among friends. He 
remained at the fort until he had sufficiently recov- 
ered from the fatigue and exposure of his captivity 
and escape to be able to resume his joiuney, but 
after his return he was reported in the contemporary 
newspapers as ill at his home neai- his father's on 
Marsh Creek. 

"Richard Beard," George Stevenson. Esq., of 
York, wrote to Secretary Peters, May 7, 1758, "who 
was captivated last month from Marsh Creek is 
returned, having made his escape some where about 
the Allegheny Hills. He was not got so far as his 
father's, near Marsh Creek, last Thursday evening ; 
he had been so much beat and abused by Tedyis- 
cung's friend Indians that his life is dispaired of, 
some of them told him they had been lately at 
Philada., that they would treat with the English 
as long as they could get presents, and scalp and cap- 
tivate as long as the French would reward 'em for 'em» 
that they loved their white brethren so well that they 
wanted a few of em to hoe corn for them, etc., etc. 



180 THE BARD FAMILY 

"I have sent up to have his examination taken, or 
to have him brought down to Sir John, on Thursday, 
if it be possible." 

On the 12th of May, 1758, Mr. Bard made an 
affidavit before Mr. Stevenson, in which he told the 
story of the abduction and miu'ders. The affidavit was 
as follows : 

RICHARD BAIRD'S DEPOSITION, 1T5H 

York County, ss. 

The Affirmation of Richard Beard, of Hamilton's Bane 
Township, aged twentv-two years, who saith, that his 
Habitation being at tlie Foot of the South Mountain, 
on the Southeast side thereof, on Thursday, the thir- 
teenth day of April last, about 7 o'clock in the morning, 
He, this Deponent, was in his house with Katharine his 
Wife, Jolni his child, about seven months old, Thomas 
Potter, son of the late Captain John Potter, Esq., 
Deceased, Frederick Ferrick, his Servant, about fourteen 
Years of age, Hannah McBride, aged about Eleven 
Years, William White, about nine Years old; in his 
Field were Samuel Hunter and Daniel McMenomyi 
Labourers, when a party consisting of nineteen Indians, 
came and Captivated Samuel Hunter and Daniel 
McMenomy in the Field, and afterwards came to the 
dwelling house of this Deponent, and about six of them 
suddenly rushed into the house, and were immediately 
driven out by this Deponent and Thomas Potter; the 
Door of the house was thrown down bv our pressing to 
keep the Indians out, and their pressing to come in, 
they shot in the house at us, and shot away Thomas 
Potter's little finger. We then had time to know their 
Numbers, and in a little time surrendered, on the prom- 
ise of the Indians not to kill any of us, thev tied us & 



BARDS OF "CARROLKS DELIGHT" 181 

took us about Sixty Rods up the Mountain, where their 
Match Coats lay, for they were naked except the Britch 
Clouts, Legins, Mocasins and Caps; then they brought 
the two men that had been at Work in the Field, and 
in about half an hour, they ordered us to March, seting 
me foremost of the Prisoners. We mai-ched one after 
another at some Distance ; at about seven miles they 
kiird my Child, which I discovered by seeing its Scalp, 
about twelve oVlock I saw another Scalp, which I knew 
to be Thomas Potters. I have since been informed that 
they killed him at the Place where their Match Coats 
lay. Fryday, the 14th, about twelve o'clock, they mur- 
dered Samuel Hunter on the North Mountain, they 
drove us over the Allegheny Mountain a day and an 
half, and on Monday Night about ten o'clock, I 
escape'd, they having sent me several Times about three 
Rods from the fire to bring Water. In nine Nights and 
Days I got to Fort Lyttleton, having had no food other 
than four snakes, which I kilFd and eat, and some Buds 
and Roots, and the like; three Cherokee Indians found 
me about two miles from Fort Lvttleton, cut me a 
Staff, and Piloted me to the P^ort. 

In conversation with the Indians during my Captivity, 
they informed me that they were all Delawares, for they 
mostly all Spake English, one spake as good English as 
I can. The Captain said he had been at Philadelphia 
last Winter, and another said he had been at Phila- 
delphia about a year ago; I ask\l them if they were not 
going to make Peace with the English? The Captain 
answered, and said they were talking about it when he 
was in Philadelphia last Winter, but he went away and 

left them. _, _, 

Richard Baird. 

Affirmed & Subscribed at York, 

the 12th May, 1758, 

CoL. George Stevenson. 



182 THE liAUD FAMILY 

With his wife in captivity Richard Bard could not 
remain quietly at his home, but devoted most of his 
time to long and dangerous journeys in quest of 
information concerning her. In the autumn of 1758, 
after the capture of Fort Duquesne by the expedition 
under General Forbes, he went to Fort Pitt, as the 
fortress was called after its capture, and he was there 
at the time of Forbes' endeavors to make a treaty 
with the neighboring Indians.^ In the Indian encamp- 
ment, on the opposite side of the rixer, was a number 
of the Delawares who had been concerned in his cap- 
ture. To these he made liimself known, but they pre- 
tended not to remember him. They finally admitted, 
however, that they were among his captors. They 
said they knew nothing of his w^fe, but promised to give 
him some information upon his return the next day. 
Bard was followed to the fort by a young man, who 
bad been taken by the Indians when a child, by whom 
lie was advised not to return to the camp, as his cap- 
tors had determined to kill him for making his escape 
if he returned. He took the liint and did not go back. 

' In his "Narrative of the Captivity of Kichard Bard," Judge Bard says: 
"Some time after my father's return home, he went to fort Pitt, which was 
then in the hands of the English, and a number of Indians being on the 
opposite side of the river, about to form a treaty, he one evening went over, 
to make inquiry concerning my mother." General Forbes, writing to Gov- 
ernor Denny immediately after the occupation of Fort Duquesne, said: "As 
the conquest of this country is of the greatest consequence to the adjacent 
provinces, by securing the Indians our real friends for their own advantage, 
I have t herefore sent for their head people to come to me, when I think, in 
few words and in few days to make everything easy." At the same time. 
Colonel Bouquet, writing to Chief Justice William Allen in regard to the 
boasts of the French commandant, who had retired to Venango, said : "We 
would soon make him shift his quarters, had we only provisions, but we are 
scarcely able to maintain ourselves here a few days to treat with the neigh- 
boring Indians, who are summoned to meet us." 



BARDS OF "CARKOLI^S DELIGHT" 18^3 

At a later period Mr. Bard made a second journey 
to Fort Pitt, going with a convoy of wagons as far as 
Fort Bedford. There he induced the commanding 
officer to secure the consent of the famous Captain 
\\'hite Eyes to accompany him to Pittsburg. AVhite 
Eyes subsequently was tlie steadfast friend of the 
JNIoravian missionaries, but his treatment of Bard 
shows that at tliis time he was a wily and treacherous 
savage. He consented readily enough to conduct 
Mr. Bard to Fort Pitt, but the party had gone onl\' 
a few miles wlien one of the Indians turned off the 
rc^ad and brought in a scalp that had been taken that 
morning from the head of one of the wagoners. 
Farther on some of the Indians again turned off the 
road and brought in a number of horses and a keg of 
whiskey. The Indians then began to drink, and some 
of tliem became very drunk. The "first war captain 
of the Delawares," as I^oskiel calls White Eyes, was 
soon under tlie influence of the liquor, and the 
natural ferocity of the savage became predominant. 
He told Bard that as lie had before escaped from his 
I3elaware captors he would shoot him then, and 
raised his gun to take aim. Bard stepped behind a 
tree, and kept stepping around it while AA^hite Eyes 
followed. This afforded much amusement to the 
Indians until a young man twisted the gun out of 
the chief's hands and hid it under a log. White Eyes 
then attacked Bard witli a large stick, giving him a 
blow on the arm that blackened it for weeks. Dur- 
ing the attack, an Indian belonging to another nation, 
who had been sent on an express to Bedford, came 
by. White Eyes asked him for his gun to shoot Bard, 



184 THE BARD FAMILY 

but the Indian refused, as the kiUing would bring 
on another war. These experiences determined Bard 
to make his escape from his escort, and mounting 
his horse he took to the road, expecting every minute 
to receiv e a ball in the back. Fearing pursuit he rode 
as fast as his horse could go, and after traveling all 
night got to Pittsburg in the morning. 

Captain White Eyes was of the Turtle tribe of 
the Delawares, and was placed at the head of his 
nation. During the early years of the Revolution 
he was the consistent friend of the Americans. In 
this he was opposed by his rival. Captain Pipe, who 
was of the Wolf tribe. Pipe was eager to take up 
the hatchet on the western frontier of Pennsylvania, 
but AVhite Eyes successfully thw^arted his designs 
until 1778, when the friendly chief accompanied 
General JNIcIntosh's army to Tuscorawas, and taking 
the smallpox, died. After that Captain Pipe's policy 
had ascendancy over the Delawares, except with the 
Moravian Indians. Upon his death. Pipe declared 
that the Great Spirit had probably put AVhite Eyes 
out of the way that his nation might be saved. In 
the end the contrary of this proved to be true. After 
many years of bitter, and often successful, warfare 
against the whites, the Delawares were almost com- 
pletely annihilated by "Mad" Anthony AVayne. The 
remnant afterward shared in the overthrow of the 
Prophet, by General Harrison, at Tippecanoe. In 
1818, the Delaw^ares ceded all their land in the State 
of Indiana to the United States and went west of 
the Mississippi. Later they become incorporated 
with the Cherokee Nation, in Texas and the Indian 



BARDS OF "CARROLL^S DELIGHT" 185 

territory. In 1903, a great-grandson of White Eyes 
was in Washington with a Delegation of the Del- 
a wares that was seeking compensation for infraction 
of their rights in Cherokee lands, where he secured 
the friendly interest of Senator Bard, of California, 
great-grandson of Richard Bard. 

At Pittsburg Mr. Bard found an opportunity to 
write to his wife that if her adopted friends would 
bring her in he would give them forty pounds. To 
this letter he received no answer, and after an un- 
successful attempt to induce an Indian to steal her 
away for a reward, he determined to undertake the 
dangerous mission himself and to bring her at all 
hazards. He accordingly went to Shamokin (Sun- 
bury), on the Susquehanna, and thence to the Big 
Cherry Trees, where he started along an Indian 
path that he knew led to the place of his wife's 
abode. He had not gone far when he met a party 
of Indians who were bringing her in. Bard told the 
Indians he would pay the forty pounds he had 
promised by letter when they reached Sunbury, but 
they were suspicious, and said that if he got them 
among the whites he would refuse to pay them. To 
allay their suspicions he told them to keep him as 
a hostage, while they sent Mrs. Bard into the town 
with an order for the money. This put the savages 
into a good humor, and they consented to enter the 
town with Bard and his wife, where the ransom was 
paid, and she was released after a captivity of two 
years and five months. 

An interesting relic of Mrs. Bard's captivity is 
still in existence. It is a great horn spoon, made for 



186 



THE BARD FAMILY 



her use by one of her Iiidiuii "brothers," and used 
by her during her stay with the Delawares. When 
Mrs. Bard died this spoon came into the possession 
of her youngest daughter, Martha, from whom it 
descended as an heirloom to her daughter, Catharine 
Wilson, and from Catharine Wilson to her daughter, 
Rachel McMean. It is now in the possession of JNliss 
McMean, who lives at Blue Ash, Ohio. This inter- 
estintj relic was made of black horn, with a handle 
elaborately car\'ed at the top. The handle measures 
se\'en and tlu'ee-fourths inches to the bowl, and ex- 
tends one and three-eighths inches on the bowl's 
bottom. The bottom of the bowl is 
four and one-half inches in length 
on the outside, and across the top its 
length is four and one-eighth inches. 
It is two inches in width across the 
top. The bowl is a little o\er half 
an inch in depth. It has a large hook 
car\ ed out of the horn at the head of 
the handle, by which its owner was 
accustomed to hang it on the kettle 
when not in use. This hook is car- 
ried one and three-quarters inches 
towards the bowl. The carving of 
the handle below the hook is grace- 
ful in outline and considering the 
rude tools with which it was 
done, artistic in execution. It 
consists of three headings, with 
two interspaces gracefully 

Mrs. Bards Indian Spoon. CUrVcd. \Vords ai'C UOt Suffi- 




BARDS OF " CARROLL S UKLIGHT" 187 

ciently express! \e to convey a picture of tlie handi- 
work to the mind, and so an appeal must be made 
through the eye by means of the accompanying 
ilhistration. From the beading the liandle gradually 
slopes from two and an eighth to one and an 
eighth inches at the bowl, where it is slightly 
Hattened, the bowl extending an inch upward 
from the place of joint contact with the handle. 
Experts declare that the spoon is the largest 
and the liandle the longest ever exhibited in this 
country. 

After the return of his wife from captivity Rich- 
ard Bard purchased a plantation near what is now 
the village of Williamson, on the East Concocheague, 
where he was visited by one of Mrs. Bard's brothers 
by Indian adoption, to whom he had given an invita- 
tion when he was at Sunbury to secure her release. 
One day the Indian went to a tavern, known as 
McCormack's, where he became slightly intoxicated. 
AVhile in this condition one of the notorious Nugent 
brothers, of the family of the Conococheague out- 
laws, attempted to cut his throat. Nugent struck a 
knife into the Indian's neck, but partly missed his 
aim, and only succeeded in cutting the forepart of 
the windpipe. The Indian was cared for at Mr. 
Bard's house until he recovered, but he was afterward 
put to death by his tribe on the pretense that he had 
joined the white people. 

When Richard Bard actually settled in what is 
now Franklin county is not clear. In the deed of 
Archibald Bard, dated February 19, 1765, conveying 
the Mill Place, on Middle Creek, and the tract in 



188 THE BARD FAMILY 

"Carroll's Delight" to Richard he is designated as 
still belonging to York county. The deed for the 
Quincy township tract, dated December 21, 1767, is 
from William Bard, of Cumberland county, to 
Richard Bard, of York county. But in the narrative 
of Archibald Bard, son of Richard, it is assumed that 
he was already living on the Conococheague, in 1764. 
During Pontiac's war, it is said, Mr. Bard removed 
his family to the house of his father-in-law, Thomas 
Poe, for greater security. One day he returned to 
" his own place, about three miles distant," to make 
hay, taking only a black girl with him. While at 
work his suspicions were aroused by the furious bark- 
ing of his dog and the attention that the animal gave 
to a clump of bushes nearby. Telling the girl that 
Indians were near he directed lier to run to the 
house, and taking up his gun he followed her. About 
an hour later, looking from the window of his loft, 
he saw Captain James Potter and his company pass 
in piu'suit of the savages, who that morning had 
killed Enoch Brown, the schoolmaster, and the 
school children at Brown's school. 

During the Revolution Mr. Bard served in Cap- 
tain Joseph Culbertson's inarching company under 
the call of July 28, 1777, in the campaign around 
Philadelphia, and afterward in the ranging company 
of Captain Walter McKinnie on the western frontier. 
Captain Culbertson's company inarched with Colonel 
Arthur Buchanan's battalion of the fifth class, Cum- 
berland County militia. No particulars have been 
obtained of Mr. Bard's service on the frontier. His 
enrollment was with the company of Captain Wil- 



BARDS OF "CARRC)Li;S DELIGHT" 189 

liani Smith, afterward Captain Walter JNIcKinnie, 
Cumberland County Associators. 

Richard Bard never held any political office 
except that of Justice of the Peace for Peters town- 
ship, at the time w^hen the justices were judges of the 
county courts. His commission was dated IVlarch 15, 
1786. He was, however, a member of the Pennsyl- 
vania Convention of 1787, to which the Constitution 
framed by the Federal Convention was submitted. 
He was an anti-Federalist and refused to sign the 
ratification. Subsequently he was a delegate to the 
Harrisburg Convention of 1788, in opposition to the 
Federal Constitution. JNlr. Bard's colleague in the 
Convention of 1787 was Colonel John Allison, who 
was an ardent Federalist, and seconded the motion to 
ratify, made by Thomas McKean. His opposition to 
the Federal Constitution, before and after its ratifica- 
tion, had a disastrous effect upon Mr. Bard's political 
fortunes. He w^as sometimes virulently assailed in 
the "Franklin Repository," the Federalist organ in 
the county, during the next ten years, an echo of 
which comes back to us through the following com- 
munication, published in the "Farmers' Register," 
the first Republican paper printed in the county: 

FOR THE REGISTER 
Messrs. Sxowdkx & McCorcle: — 
Please give the following a place in the " Fanners 
Register." R. B. 

MR. ROBERT HARPER 

In the "Franklin Repository" of the 15th instant you 
have published a piece expressive of much anger and 



190 THK BARD FAMILY 

hostile scorn towards me. I am not conscious of having 
(lone anything whatever that might, with any degree of 
propriety, be considered a palliative for your conduct. 
But had you not accused me of "lying," there is noth- 
ing contained in your puerile observations, in your dis- 
dainful snickers, and hideous laughs to challenge my 
attention or attract my notice. Now, even though you 
had some reason to suspect that my carriage or deport- 
ment towards you was, in some instances, exceptionable 
ought vou not to have re(|uired some explanations from 
me, before you had effected to bristle up, and represent 
me in youi' newspaper as a lyar.'' I deny, however, that 
the accusation that you have with so much publicity 
and temerity exhibited against me is well founded; and 
I do hereby, in this public manner, call upon you to 
employ every resource, to put in practice every artifice, 
and to summons and rouse up all your deliberative and 
inventive powers, in order to prove, if you can, the 
charge to be true. 
August 20, 1798. RunAui) Bard 

Where the road from I^emaster to Upton crosses 
the Warm Spring road leading to Church -hill, in 
Peters township, about two miles soutliwest of Wil- 
liamson, are the ruins of an old mansion that was for 
many years the home of Richard Bard. The house 
was burned a few years ago. AAHien it was built, or 
by whom, has not been ascertained. The early orders 
for survey show that the first settler on the Bard 
plantation was Hezekiah Alexander. His name 
appears on the Cumberland county tax lists for 1751, 
but he subsequently removed to North Carolina, and 
was living in Mecklenburg county in 1789. This is 
proved by a deed from Alexander to Bard, dated 



BARDS OF "CARKOLLS DELIGHT ^^ 



191 



September 13, 1789, to perfect title. It is probable 
that Alexander went to North Carolina during tlie 
French and Indian War, and that Bard bought the 
plantation before the close of the struggle, as he was 
living on it at the time of the massacre of the chil- 




Rifhard Bard Mansion. 

dren of Enoch Brown's school, in 1764. One of 
Alexander's warrants for 100 acres was dated August 
13, 1751, but the deed of 1789 covered 555 acres. 
Bard's first survey of 338 acres of the Alexander 
land was made May 1, 1767, and the tract was resur- 
veyed, with alterations, March 28, 1788. It may be 
assmned that both the lands within the accompany- 
ing draft, and the adjacent lands w^ithout, were 
included in the Alexander claim. 



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THE BARD FAMILY 



In his lifetime Richard Bard and Catharine his 
wife sold part of the Bard homestead to their son 
Thomas, and the remaining part to their son, Archi- 
bald. The deed to Thomas, which was dated August 







Richard Bard Homestead. 

15, 1794, conveyed 352 acres. This land was part of 
a large tract called "Bard's Purchase," and included, 
besides, three small tracts named " Recollection," 
"Bard's Addition" and "Parnassus." Thomas Bard 
and Jane his wife conveyed 286 acres of this land to 



BARDS OF "CARROLUS DELIGHT" 193 

Henry Stitzel by deed dated February 20, 1824. 
Henry Stitzel divided it into two tracts of 143 acres 
each, and conveyed one of these to his son George, 
and the other to his son-in-law, Gideon Hoch, 
August 0, 1824. George Stitzel got the old Richard 
Bard mansion. The consideration named in the deed 
to Henry Stitzel was $11,372.25, and in those to 
George Stitzel and Gideon Hoch, $5,736. From 
George Stitzel the Richard and Thomas Bard home- 
stead went to William Stitzel, April 16, 1863, who 
sold it to John Widder, March 31, 1864. It is now 
owned by S. Houston Johnston, of Mercers burg, 
whose wife is a great-granddaughter of Richard 
Bard. 

The deed of Richard and Catharine Bard to their 
son Archibald for a part of " Bard's Purchase" was 
dated July 25, 1793. This conveyance was for '226^ 
acres, and comprised the northern part of the old 
Bard plantation. On this tract Judge Bard l)uilt the 
fine stone mansion in which he lived until his death, 
and that was afterward the home of his widow. The 
house is still standing. The Judge Bard homestead, 
after the death of liis widow, was sold and for more 
than a lialf of a century it has been out of the Bard 
name. The present owners of the Richard Bard plan- 
tation are S. Houston Johnston, Andrew AA'inirer 
and David Kinsey. 

I^ike many of the early settlers on the l*ennsyl- 
vania frontier, Ricliard Bard, soon after the close of 
the French and Indian War, acquired extensive 
tracts of land as far westward as the western side of 
the Alleghenies. In 1772, his name appeared on the 



UH THE BARD FAMILY 

Bedford county tax list for 300 acres of seated and 
800 acres of unseated lands in ]Mt. Pleasant township. 
A year later, in 1773, this township became a part of 
the new county of Westmoreland. Among his neigh- 
bors in JNIt. Pleasant township were two brothers, 
John and George Baird, the former of whom was one 
of Richard Bard's fellow members in the Pennsyl- 
vania Convention of 1787. In other parts of the 
county were other land owners of the Bard kinship, 
including George Latimer and Samuel Potter, in 
Hempfield township. Latimer married JMargaret 
Potter, a daughter of Captain John Potter, the first 
Sheriff of Cimiberland county, and Samuel I'otter 
was her brother. Mr. Potter married Susanna Poe, 
a sister of JMr. Bard's wife. Catharine I'otter, another 
daughter of Captain John Potter, married .lames Car- 
others, and lived on a plantation adjoining Samuel 
Potter's land. Carothers built on his land, but during 
the Revolution he became embarrassed and conveyed 
it to Richard Bard, April 24, 1780, in consideration 
of £10,000. Bard reconveyed it to Carothers, March 
5, 1783, for £300. This land was conveyed to Car- 
others, (October 1, 1773, by his brother-in-law, James 
Potter, in consideration of £l50, but the deed was 
not acknowledged until August 1, 1783. 

The Bard family of Bardstown, Ky., had a tradi- 
tion that during the Revolutionary period Richard 
Bard went to Danville with liis brother William, 
where he built a cabin that entitled him to a thousand 
acres of land, but afterward returned to Pennsylvania. 
It is probable that the tradition is well founded, at 
least in part. According to the manuscript records 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 195 

compiled and presened by Colonel Reuben T. Dur- 
rett, of Louisville, Ky., Richard Bard entered 2, 000 
acres on treasury warrants, June 19, 1780, twelve or 
fifteen miles south of Drennon's Lick, including some 
of his improvements on the Waters of Kentucky, 
below Potter's and I>atimore's Preemptions on the 
east side of the Buffalo road. He afterward withdrew 
1,000 acres and located them on Buffalo Creek, a 
branch of Beech Fork. He also withdrew 500 acres 
of the Dreimon's Lick tract and located them on the 
West Fork of Witherow's Run, also a branch of 
Beech Fork, and adjoinintr W^itherow's Preemption 
and Paul Froman's siu'vey. Both of the latter tracts 
were in what is now Nelson county in the neighbor- 
hood of Bardstown. JNIr. Bard also entered 50 acres 
on Spring Run, below Roger's station ; 200 acres on 
Buffalo Creek, adjoining Samuel Witherow's Preemp- 
tion ; and 325 acres on Stewart's Creek, adjoining 
David Bard's preemption, east of the town. Subse- 
quently, April 3, 1781, Mr. Bard withdrew the 
remaining 500 acres of the 2,000 acres entry on Dren- 
non's Lick and located them on Buffalo Creek, begin- 
ning at the southeast corner of William Bard's pi'e- 
emption and running southwesterly along W^illiam 
Bard's line 250 poles, and thence off nearly at right 
angles to include the quantity in the bottom ground 
of the creek. By a deed dated March 18, 1788, he 
conveyed one-half — 325 acres — of the tract contigu- 
ous to Bardstown on the east, known as Witherow's 
preemption, and adjoining lands of James Bard, to his 
son, Archibald, the consideration named being £lOO. 
This deed was witnessed by James and Elizabeth Poe, 



196 THE BARD FAMILY 

acknowledged before George Matthews, Esq., one of 
the Justices of Frankhn county. Pa,, and certified by 
Edward Crawford, Prothonotary. On the 12th of 
September, 1795, Richard Bard made an agreement 
with Wilham Lytic, on behalf of Archibald, for the 
conveyance of the Witherow tract, and Archibald 
Bard made a deed for it, the receipt of which was for- 
mally entered on record by Lytic, May 29, 1798. 
Finally, in 1807, the heirs of Richard Bard executed 
a release for this land to perfect the title. Samuel 
Witherow's deed is also on record. 

It is a noteworthy coincidence that when Richard 
Bard made his entry for 2,000 acres on Drennon's 
Lick his relations, Samuel Potter and George I^ati- 
mer, who were so closely associated with him in his 
land entries in Westmoreland County, Pa., also 
entered 1,000 acres each upon preemption warrants, 







-9„ 

James McBride Survey No. 1. 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 



19' 



including their improvements. Potter's warrant was 
No. 839; Latimer's, No. 840, and Bard's, Nos. 843 
and 844. 

Two plantations in Hamilton township, Franklin 
county. Pa., one on Back Creek and the other on the 



BAR/t£/v H'lls 



H IXtfi/fAl^ 




James M'Bride Survey, No. -2. 



Conococheague, were purchased by Richard Bard 
from James McBride, the younger, in 1798. The 
Back Creek tract contained 174 acres and .50 perches. 
Its situation was near the present village of Housum. 
The draft shows that the body of the tract was con- 
nected with Back Creek by a narrow tongue of land. 
The Conococheague tract, which contained 288 
acres and 105 perches, extended across the Hamilton 
township line into Antrim. An order of survey for 
these tracts was obtained by James McBride, Sr., 



198 



THE BARD FAMILY 



February^24, 1767. McBride conveyed the tracts to 
his son, James McBride, Jr. The hitter removed to 
Woodford [county, Ivy., where his will was proved, 
April's, 1783. James JNIcBride, Jr., left two sons — 
Henry, who^died young mid immarried, and James, 
who^settled in AVestnioreland county. Pa., and sold 







■*^ CA'V V 

Hill-Crobarger Survey. 

the^Hamilton township lands to Richard Bard, Sep- 
tember 15, 1798. 

iVnother tract of land owned by Richard Bard at 
the time of his death and sold by his heirs to Leonard 
Crobarger, April 4, 1800, was situated in Peters town- 
ship, and contained 111 acres and 62 perches. The 
original order of survey was obtained by John Hill, 



BARUS OF "CARROLL^S DELIGHT ^^ 199 

who was a taxable in Peters township in 1751. Hill's 
order of survey was dated November 7, 1752, but the 
actual survey, as gi^'en in the accompanying draft, 
was not made until the land was sold to Crobarger. 
Hill probably left the Conococheague A'alley during 
the French and Indian War. His title to the land 
was conveyed to AA^illiam Dean by John McJNlath 
under a power of attorney from Hill, and Dean's 
heirs conveyed to Richard Bard. 

JMr. Bard died intestate and was buried in the 
Presbyterian graveyard at Church -hill. After his 
death his three farms were sold, his heirs joining in 
the deeds. His personal estate was appraised at 362 
pounds, 6 shillings, 7 pence. His four slaves were an 
important part of his assets — Jack being valued at 50 
pounds; Alexander, 45 pounds; Shaney, 45 pounds; 
and Bob, 50 pounds. Mrs. Catharine Bard made a 
will, dated October 15, 1805, naming her son, Isaac 
Bard, and her brother, James Poe, as executors. 
After Isaac's death, by a codicil, dated September 7, 
1807, Thomas Bard was substituted as one of the 
executors. The will and codicil were admitted to 
probate, October 18, 1811. To her son, Thomas 
Bard, she gave her cupboard, bookcase and kitchen 
utensils, and her negro boy, Sam, Thomas paying 
Catharine McFarland and Martha AVilson five pounds 
each for every year Sam should serve. Thomas was 
also required to give her granddaughter, Jane Erwin, 
a good horse, saddle and bridle. To her daughter 
Olivia Erwin she gave her negro woman, Bet, and to 
Jane Erwin her plantation in Clermont county, Ohio, 
about seven miles from ^Villiamsburg. The residue 



200 THE BARD FAMILY 

of her estate she divided among her five daughters. 
Her interest in the estate of her son, Isaac Bard, she 
divided into eight shares, giving one share to lier 
granddaughter, Jane Erwin, and the others to lier 
cliildren. 

JMr. Bard was married December 22, 1756, to 
Catharine Poe, daugliter of Thomas and INIary Poe. 
She was born June 3, 1737, and died August 31, 1811. 

Issue : ' 

1. John Bard, born September 27, 1757, killed bv the 
Indians, April 13, 1758. 

2. Isaac Bard, of whom presently. 

3. Marv Bard, married James Dunlap, of whom presently. 

4. Archibald Bard, of whom presently. 

5. Olivia Bard, married James Erwin, of whom presently. 

6. Thomas Bard, of whom presently. 

7. William Bard, born March 25, 1771 ; died young. 

8. Elizabeth Bard, married James McKinnie, of whom 
presently. 

9. Margaret Bard, born October 21, 1774; died unmarried, 
June 21, 1805. 

10. Catharine Bard, married Stephen McFarland, of whom 
presently. 

11. Martha Bard, married William Wilson, of whom 

presently. 

Mrs. Bard's father, Thomas Poe, was an early settler on 
the Conococheague Creek, in what is now Antrim town- 
ship, Franklin county, Pa., where he died in 1770. 
According to a tradition preserved by some of his 
descendants, his wife was Mary Potter, a sister of Cap- 
tain John Potter, the first sheriff of Cumberland county, 
Pa. A genealogy of the Poe family will be found in 
Part III of this work. 



II 



TSAAC BARD, the first child of Richard and 
^ Catharine (Poe) Bard after the return of Mrs. 
Bard from captivity among the Delawares, was born 
in Peters township, Cumberland, now Franklin 
county. Pa., February 8, 1762, and died July 28, 
1806. He was a farmer in Peters townsliip. He was 
enrolled as a private of the sixth class, in Captain 
Walter JNIcKinnie's company of the fourth battalion, 
Cumberland County Associators, in 1780, but was 
not in active service, paying a fine of £450, Pennsyl- 
vania currency, for non-performance of military duty. 
After the Revolution he succeeded Captain McKinnie 
in command of the company and became one of the 
most active and efficient officers in the Pennsylvania 
militia. Captain Bard was married April 30, 1789, to 
Jane McDowell, daughter of Judge James and Jane 
(Smith) McDowell. She was born February 13, 1771, 
and died January 23, 1847. After Captain Bard's 
death his widow married Colonel John Findlay, son 
of Sanniel and Jane (Smith) Findlay, and a brotlier 
of Governor AA^illiam Findlay, of Pennsylvania, and 
General James Findlay, of Ohio. These three Find- 
lay brothers were members of Congress at the same 
time, William in the Senate, and Jolm and James in 
the House. 

Judge McDowell, the father of Mrs. Bard, was a son of 
William McDowell, the pioneer settler at the base of 
Mount Parnell, in Franklin county, Pa. The elder 

r^oi) 



202 THE BARD FAMILY 

McDowell was born in Ireland in 1680, and emigrated 
to Pennsylvania between 1714 and 1717. He first 
settled in Chester county, but removed to the Conoco- 
heague Valley about 1735. Because of the Indian for- 
ays of 1755—56, he fled to the Susquehanna, and died 
there in 1759, his remains being interred in the grave- 
yard of Donegal Church, in Lancaster county. He 
married his wife, Mary, in Ireland ; she died February 
18, 1782. James McDowell was the fourth son of 
William and Mary McDowell. He was born in Chester 
county, Pa., in 1728, and died Februai-y 5, 1811. He 
was a farmer near Mount Parnell and an accomplished 
surveyor. He was an associate judge of Franklin county, 
1791-1811. Judge McDowell married June 17, 1761, 
Jane Smith, daughter of Robert and Jean Smith, and 
a sister of Colonel James Smith, the famous captain of 
the "Black Boys." She died August 28, 1784. This 
McDowell family still has representatives of the name 
living inider the shadows of Mount Parnell. 

Mary Bard, eldest daughter of Rieliard and Catha- 
rine (Poe) Bard, was born on the Peters township 
homestead, August 28, 1763, and died in Clermont 
county, Ohio. She was married to James Dunlap, 
son of Joseph Dunlap. He died April 19, 1806. Mr. 
Dunlap was a farmer of Peters township, Franklin 
coimty, Pa., and was a man of high character and 
excellent standing in the community in which lie 
lived. 

Issue : 

1. James Dunlap, of whom presently. 

2. John Dunlap, removed to Clermont county, Ohio ; he 
was married to Elizabeth . 



BARDS OF "CARROLL'S DELIGHT '^ 203 

3. Richai'd Dunlap, was born in 1785, and died unmarried, 
at LeClaire, la., in 1863. 

4. Joseph Dunlap, went to Clermont county, Ohio. 

5. Mary Foe Dunlap, married James McDowell, of whom 
presently. 

6. Elizabeth Bard Dunlap, married Richard Bard, son of 
Rev. David and Elizabeth (Diemer) Bard. (See Descendants of 
David Bard.) 

Andrew Dunlap, the grandfather of James Dunlap, was 
an early settler in what is now Feters township, 
Franklin county. Fa. He died in July or August, 1764. 
The name of his wife was Jean. He had four children : 
Joseph, Elizabeth, Mary and Arthur. 
Joseph Dunlap, son of Andrew and Jean Dunlap, died 
in Feters township, Franklin county, Fa., in 1789. He 
made a will, dated April 20, 1783, in which he named 
his sons James and Joseph as executors. The executors 
presented this will to the Register of Frankhn county 
for probate in a mutilated condition, the signatures of 
the testator and witnesses being torn off. Elias Flana- 
gan, a son-in-law, objected to the probate. The case 
was heard by the Register and five justices of the 
county, who decided June 18, 1789, that the paper was 
not the will of Joseph Dunlap. James Dunlap appealed 
to the Supreme Court of Fennsylvania, with his father- 
in-law, Richard Bard, as his surety for costs, but the 
appeal was dismissed. He had nine children : Alexander, 
John, James, Joseph, Ruth, Mary, wife of Elias 
Flanagan; Ann, Sarah and Elizabeth, wife of Hugh 
Cunningham. 

Archibald Bard, son of Richard and Catharine 
(Poe) Bard, was born in Peters township, Franklin 
county. Pa., June 27, 1765, and died on his farm, 
iid joining the Richard Bard homestead, October 1, 



i204 THE BARD FAMILY 

1882. He was a prominent citizen of Peters town- 
ship, and for twenty-one years was an associate judge 
of P'ranklin county. He held the office continuously 
from his first appointment, April 2, 1811, luitil his 
death, serving under five successi\'e President judges, 
as follows: James Hamilton, 1811-19; Charles Smith. 
1819-20; John Reed, 1820-24; John Tod, 1824-27; 
and Alexander Tliomson, 1827-32. After he had 
been six years on the bench, Judge Bard was anxious 
to succeed General John Rea in Congress, according 
to a letter printed in tlie Philadelphia "iVurora," May 
28, 1817. This letter gives an interesting account of 
Franklin county politics at that time. 

" It may be proper iiere to mention." says tlie 
writer, *' that we have in this county, as well as in 
some otliers, that kind of aristocracy which is called 
family interest, in wliich the public is sacrificed to 
family combinations. This county is divided into 
several connexions of tliis kind, instead of parties. 
. . . These are the Reas, the Bards, the Maclays, 
tlie Findlays, and several others, none of them power- 
ful enough alone, others not of sufficient conse- 
quence to be noticed. In the first instance. General 
Rea went to Congress, but Judge Bard l^egan to 
think he would look quite as well there as the Gen- 
eral. . . . At one of their delegate meetings. Bard 
was brought forward by General Waddle, })ut one of 
our delegates and those from Bedford would not 
consent to it, so lie fell through, and seeing his 
connexions were too weak of themselves, he formed 
a league with the Maclays and finally ousted Rea, but 
ludicrous to tell, \^'^illiam Maclay was taken up in- 



BARDS OF "CARROLL'S DELIGHT" 205 

stead of Bard, and lie is still obliged to stick to the 
judgeship." 

Judge Bard was a practical farmer and lived all 
his life on his farm, which was a part of " Bard's Pur- 
chase, ' the old liichard Bard homestead. The deed 
of Richard and Catharine Bard to their son Archi- 
bald for a part of "' Bard's Purchase," was dated July 
25, 1793. This conveyance was for 226|^ acres, and 
comprised the northern part of the old Bard planta- 
tion. On this tract Judge Bard built the fine stone 
mansion in whicli he lived until his death, and that 
was afterward the home of his widow. The house 
is still standing. The Judge Bard homestead, after 
the death of Mrs. Bard, was sold and for more than 
a half of a century it has been out of the Bard name. 
He was an active business man, and was named as 
executor of many estates by his neighbors in the 
townships of Peters, Montgomery and Antrim. His 
patriotism was shown by the fact tliat he marched 
to the defense of Baltimore in 1814, serving as a 
private in the company of his brother. Captain 
Thomas Bard. 

Judge Bard compiled a narrative of the captivity 
of Richard Bard and his wife by the Indians, from 
his father's papers, which w^is printed originally in 
I^oudon's "Narratives," and reprinted with some 
changes in "Border Life." These narratives were 
collated by the compiler of this genealogy, and re- 
printed, with notes, in 1905, together with a ballad 
of his captivity and escape, written by Ricliard Bard, 
in 1760. Judge Bard always took a leading part in 
the political activities of his period. He went to 



'206 TIIK BARD FAMILY 

Chanibersbiirg to a meeting of the return judges on 
the twelfth of October, the day of the cholera out- 
break of 1832, took the infection and was one of the 
victims of the epidemic. 

Judge Bard was married to Elizabeth Beatty, only 
daughter of AVilliam and ^lary (Johnston) Beatty. 
She was born in Antrim township, in what is now 
Franklin county. Pa., January 17, 1771, and died 
January 9, 1852. 

Issue : 

1. Richard Bard, was born Julv 5, 1800, and died un- 
married, January 26, 1831. He was grachiated at Princeton. 
He studied law in Chanibersburg and was admitted to the 
Franklin Count v Bar, at the Aujjjust term, 1823. He removed 
to Washington county, Pa., whence his father and mother 
brought back his body in a sleigh for interment in the old 
Church-hill graveyard, near Mercersburg, Pa. 

2. Maria Bard, married Adam McKinnie,of whom presently. 

3. Catharine Bard, married Franklin Darragh, of whom 
presently. 

4. Wilham Beatty Bard, was born May 13, 1803, and 
died unmarried, at Delaware, (^hio, Feburary 29, 1880. In 
early life he was a merchant at Mercersburg and captain of a 
military company. He went to California in 1852, and re- 
mained there nineteen years; then returning to Ohio, he made 
his home with his brother Isaac and sister Olivia until his death. 

5. Margaret Bard, married Alexander E. McDowell, of 
whom presently. 

6. Isaac Bard, of whom presently. 

7. James Johnston Bard, was born April 7, 1810, and 
died December 7, 1810. 

8. Elizabeth Johnston Bard, was born December 28, 1811, 
and died August 25, 1819. T 



BARDS OF "CARROLLS DELIGHT" 207 

9. Eliza Jane Bard, was born Pebruary J20, 1814, and died 
May 17, 1887. She was married April 30, 1845, to Abner M. 
Fuller, admitted to the Chambersburg Bar in 1844, and went 
to Ohio. 

10. Archibald Bard, was born November 20, 1815, and 
died May 21, 1816. 

11. Martha Olivia Bard, was born June 18, 1817, and 
died in Ohio, March 1, 1878. 

Mrs. Bard*'s father, William Beatty, was a son of Henry 
and Catharine Beatty, early settlers in Antrim town- 
ship, Cumberland, now Franklin county, Pa. Henry 
Beatty died in September or October, 1772, William 
Beatty was born at Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ire- 
land, in 1738, and died in Antrim township, February 
15, 1802. He was in active service in the Revolution 
with Captain James Young"'s marching company, in the 
campaign around Philadelphia, in 1777, under Colonel 
Arthur Buchanan, and with Captain William Findley's 
marching company, March, 1778, with Colonel Samuel 
Culbertson''s battalion. He lived in the Brown's Mill 
neighborhood, near the Poe and Potter plantations. 
The Beatty family of the Conococheague, generally 
assumed to be of Scotch-Irish origin, was more proba- 
bly of Irish lineage, in this that the Biataghs, Bietaghs 
or Beattys in Ireland antedated the Plantation of 
Ulster. According to Tipper's "Collection of Pedi- 
grees," written in the Irish language in 1713, Goff'rey, 
one of the princes from Scotland, who, siding with the 
Irish monarch Brian Boru, fought at the battle of 
Clontarf in 1014, was the ancestor ofBeytagh, modern- 
ized Beatty, Beaty, Beytagh and Battia. 
On the maternal side, Mrs. Bard's grandparents were 
Major James and Elizabeth (Brown-Findlay) Johnston. 
Major ifohnston settled in Antrim township near Shady 



208 THE BARD FAMILY 

Grove, about 1735. He was of the Johnstons of Dum- 
frieshire, in Scotland, better known as the Johnstons of 
Annandale. He was the father of four sons distin- 
guished in the Revolution. His wife Elizabeth was a 
daughter of Cornet Brown, who participated in the 
defense of Derrv, and the widow of Samuel Findlav, the 
grandfather of the three Findlay brothers, Colonel 
John, Governor William and General James. 

Olivia Bard, daughter of Richard and Catharine 
(Poe) Bard, was born March 2(), 1767, and died in 
Clermont county, Ohio. She was married about 
1793-94 to James Erwin, whose ancestry has not 
been established. He was born in 1742, and died 
April 14, 1819. He was a farmer in Peters township, 
Franklin county. Pa. He was an active member of 
the Upper West Conococheague Presbyterian 
Church, and was clerk of the session. 

Issue : 

1. Martha W. Erwin, n)arried ^Villiam Rankin, of whom 
presently. 

2. Catharine Poe Erwin, was born January 9, 1797, and 
died at East Liberty, Pa., July 2, 1883. She was blind for 
many years. She was married June 27, 1823, to Joseph Mc- 
Farland; they had no children. 

3. Mary Erwin, was born August 13, 1799, and died 
October 16, 1859. She was married February 13, 1823, to 
Alexander ^Vaddell, son of Thomas and Catharine (Long) 
Waddell. They had two children, an infant that died August 
9, 1825, and Catharine Elizabeth, who was baptized July 16, 
1826, and died November 4, 1826. 

4. John Erwin, was born June 9, 1803, and died March 
24, 1872. At the time of his death he was living at Bryn 
Mawr, Pa. He was married April 26, 1859, to Martha Bren- 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT ^^ 209 

ard, a native of Northampton, Eng. She was born July 29, 
1819, and died May 5, 1901. They had no children. 

5. Olivia Bard Erwin, married Dr. Valentine B. McGahan, 
of whom presently. 

6. James Bard Erwin, of whom presently. 

James Erwin was probably a son of Joseph Erwin, who 
at the time of his death in 1771-72 was living in Read- 
ing township, York, now Adams county. Pa. Joseph 
Erwin was married to Mary McClellan, daughter of 
James McClellan, and had two sons, John and James, 
and a daughter, Sarah. John Erwin married Mary 
Ramsey, daughter of James and Mary (O'Caine) Ram- 
sey, and had John, Robert and Mary, wife of David 
Agnew. 

Thomas Bard, son of Richard and Catharine 
(Poe) Bard, was born April 2, 1769, and died July 
9, 1845. He was for many years a prominent citizen 
of Peters township, Frankhn county, Pa. He was 
a farmer, and for thirty years of his hfe hved on a 
part of the old Bard homestead, occupying the 
old stone mansion built by his father, Richard Bard. 
The old farmhouse was destroyed by fire a few 
years ago and is now only a heap of crumbling 
ruins. 

By a deed dated August 15, 1794, Richard Bard 
and Catharine, his wife, conveyed 352 acres of the 
old Bard homestead to their son Thomas. This land 
was part of a large tract called " Bard's Purchase," 
and it included, besides, three small tracts named 
"Recollection," "Bard's Addition," and "Parnassus." 
Thomas Bard and Jane, his wife, conveyed 286 acres 
of this land to Henry Stitzel by deed dated February 



210 THE BARD FAMILY 

20, 1824. Heny Stitzel divided it into two tracts of 
143 acres each, and conveyed one of these to his son 
George, and the other to his son-in-law, Gideon 
Hoch, August 6, 1824. George Stitzel got the old 
Richard Bard mansion. The consideration named in 
the deed to Henry Stitzel was $11,372.25, and in 
those to George Stitzel and Gideon Hoch, !55,736. 
From George Stitzel the Richard and Thomas Bard 
homestead went to William Stitzel, April 16, 1863, 
who sold it to John Widder, March 31, 1864. It is 
now owned by S. Houston Johnsto!i, of Mercersburg? 
Pa. 

In 1814, Mr. Bard formed a company of volun- 
teers among his neighbors, which formed part of the 
regiment that marched to the defense of Baltimore 
under the command of Colonel John Findlay. In 
Captain Bard's company were his brother. Judge 
Archibald Bard; AVilliam Wilson, whose first wife 
was his sister Martha; Joseph Duidap, his nephew; 
and James McDowell, A^^ilham McDowell, Sr., and 
Matthew Patton. \A^illiani McDowell, Sr., was an 
officer of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolution, 
and was with Wayne at the storming of Stony Point. 
After the sale of the Bard homestead Captain Bard 
removed to Washington covmty, ^Id., but after a 
brief sojourn in Maryland, he returned to Franklin 
comity, and was elected a member of the Pennsyl- 
vania Legislature, 1832-33. 

Captain Bard was married INIarch 26, 1 807, to Jane 
C. (Jeanney) McFarland, daughter of Robert and 
Jean (Cochran) McFarland. She was born December 
17, 1783, and died August 31, 1857. 



BARDS OF "CARROLi;S DELIGHT" '2U 

Issue : 

1. Richard Rard, of whom presently. 

2. Robert McFarland Bard, of whom presently. 

3. Thomas Poe Bard, of whom presently. 

4. John Bard, of whom presently. 

5. Archibald Bai"d, of whom presently. 

6. Oliver Barbour Bard, was baptized May, 1817, and died 
in infancy. 

7. Eliza Catharine Bard, was born April 4, 182r3, and died 
October 6, 1823. 

Mrs. Bard's father, Robert McFarland, belonged to the 
old McFarland family of Bucks county. Pa., and on the 
maternal side, her mother, Jean Cochran, was a descend- 
ant of the Cochrans of Chester countv. For their his- 
tory see the Cochran and McFarland families in "The 
Bard Kinship," Part III. 

Elizabeth Bard, daughter of Richard and Catha- 
rine (Poe) Bard, was born February 12, 177'3, and 
died July 9, 1824. She was married to James 
McKinnie, son of Josiah and Isabel McKinnie. IMr. 
McKinnie died July 27, 1811. He was a farmer in 
Peters township, Franklin county, Pa. 

Issue : 

1. James McKinnie, of whom presently. 

2. Richard Bard McKinnie, of whom presently. 

3. Walter McKinnie. 

4. Josiah McKinnie, of whom presently. 

5. John McKinnie, died July 24, 1810. 

6. Catharine McKinnie, married Alexander McMullen, of 
whom presently. 

7. Margaret McKinnie, married James Turner, of whom 
presently. 



^2V2 THE BARD FAMILY 

Mr. McKinnie's father, Josiah McKinnie, was a native 
of Ireland, who died in Peters township, Cumberland, 
now Franklin county, Pa., October 20, 1782. He emi- 
grated to America and settled near Carlisle, Pa., before 
the French and Indian ^Var. About 1757, he came to 
Church-hill, in Peters township, but was driven away by 
the Indians and did not return for two years. The 
name of his wife was Isabel. She died A{)ril 20, 1777. 
Thev had eleven children. 

John McKinnie was niai ricd to Catiiarine , who 

died in October, 17S5. Their children were Robert, 
Walter and Isabel, who died Novemljer I, 1816. 
Josiah McKinnie, the voiui^er, died June 1, 1774. 
Walter McKinnie, died April 20, 1806. He was ensign 
of Captain William Huston's marching company, in 
service, in 1778, but is marked on the rolls "on a 
journey. " He became captain of the eighth company, 
ill the fourth battalion, Cumberland County Associa- 
tors. May 10, 1780, and was in .service on the western 
frontier. By his wife Jane he had three sons, James B., 
Josiah and Walter, and a daughter, Elizabeth. 
James McKinnie, is the subject of the foregoing sketch. 
Mary McKinnie, was married to John McCullough, 
.son of James nud Martha McCullough. He was born in 
Newcastle county, Del., in 174?9, and was brought to 
Peters township by his j)arents in 1754. With his 
vounger brother James, he was captured by the Indians, 
July 26, 1756. His "Narrative" of his captivity will be 
found in "Border Life." His children were Josiah, John 
and Martha. 

Elizabeth McKinnie, was married to Samuel Patton, 
who died in 1821. He was a captain in Colonel Joseph 
Armstrong's regiment of the "Flying Camp," in 1776, 
and was captain of the third company in Colonel Sam- 



BARDS Ol' '' CARROLL S DELIGHT" ^13 

uel Culbertson's battalion, Cumberland County Associa- 
tors, 1777 80. He commanded a marching company in 
service under Colonel William Chambers in 1778, and 
on the Bedford frontier in 1779. Issue: Matthew, 
Josiah; Elizabeth, married John Gihnor; Isabella, mar- 
ried Joseph Marshall; Rebecca; Catharine, married 
Charles Cunnnins, and Martha. 

Martha McKinnie, was married May 5, 1785, to William 
Menard, who died in 1795; their children were Samuel, 
William, John, Josiah, Mary, Martha and Elizabeth. 

Margaret McKinnie, niarried McCoy. 

Isabel McKinnie, married Alexander McDowell. 
Catharine McKinnie, married John McDowell. 
Anne McKiimie, married Benjamin Chestnut. 

Catharine Bard, daughter of Richard and Catha- 
rine (Poe) Bard, was born March 1, 1777, and died 
in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was married No\ ember 13, 
1800, to Stephen McFarland, son of Robert and Jane 
(Cochran) McFarland. He was born in Bucks 
county. Pa., August 15, 1772, and died at Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, November 8, 1832. He went to Cincin- 
nati in the early days of that city, where he engaged 
in business as a hatter. Subsequently he kept the 
"Columbian Inn." He amassed a considerable for- 
tune, and retired to a rural residence in the neighbor- 
hood of his adopted city, but about 1820, he became 
seriously embarrassed in banking operations, and was 
reduced from affluence to poverty. There is a trace 
of regret at his misfortune in his father's will. 

Issue : 

1. Robert McFarland, was baptized September ^0, 1801. 

2. Isaac Bard McFarland, was baptized December 5, 1802, 
and died without issue. 



214 THE BARD FAMILY 

3. John McFarlaiul. 

4. Thomas McFarlaiid, was baptized March 18, 1806. 

5. Jane McFarland, married Ira Athertoii, of Cincinnati. 

For Mr. McFarland's family history, see McFarland 
family in "The Bard Kinship." 

IVIartha Bard, daughter of Richard and Catharine 
(Poe) Bard, was born November 12, 1778, and died 
October 13, 1818. She was married November 11, 
1805, to William ^Vilson, son of John and Ann 
(Campbell) Wilson. He was born in Peters town- 
ship, Franklin county. Pa., March 18, 1785, and died 
at College Hill, Ohio, July 29, 18G4. He was a 
farmer in Peters township until 1824, when he 
removed to Ohio, where the rest of his life was spent. 

Issue : 

1. John Wilson, was born Au^'ust 16, 1806, and died July 
12, 1807. 

2. Catharine Poe Wilson, was horn August 7, 1807, and 

died in Ohio. She was married to McMean, a native 

of Lancaster county, Pa., who died in Ohio in 1891. A daugh- 
ter, Rachel McMean, is living at Blue Ash, Ohio, and has in 
her possession the great horn spoon used by Mrs. Catharine 
Poe Bard during her captivity among the Indians. 

3. Rachel McGee Wilson, was born October 9, 1809, and 
died in Ohio. She was married to Dr. John Nay lor. 

4. Martha Bard Wilson, was born July 23, 1813, and died 
April 3, 1814. 

Mr. Wilson's grandfather, William Wilson, was an 
early settler in Peters township, Cumberland, now 
Franklin county. Pa. He died September 18, 1777, 
and his wife Isabelle died October 3, 1777. Their chil- 
dren was Isaac, Sarah, Matthew, Elizabeth, John, Wil- 
liam and Ann. 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 215 

John Wilson, son of William and Isabelle Wilson, died 
April 2, 1788. He was married January 25, 1770, to 
Ann Campbell. Their children were William and 
Margaret. 

William Wilson, son of John and Ann (Campbell) Wil- 
son, was twice married. His second wife was Mary 
McFarland, daughter of Robert and Jane (Cochran) 
McFarland. For their children, see McFarland family 
in "The Bard Kinship." 



Ill 



TAMES DUNI.AP, son of James and Mary 
^ (Bard) Dunlap, went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where 
he was associated in business with his uncle, Stephen 
McFarland. He returned to Pennsylvania previous 
to his second marriage. Mr. Dunlap was twice mar- 
ried. He was married (1), November 17, 1807, to 
Margaret Dunlap, probably a cousin, who died in 
August, 1808, and (2), November 1, 1817, to Jane S. 
McDowell, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (Irwin) 
McDowell. She was born September 23, 1700, and 
died July 28, 1876. His widow, with her children, 
removed to D wight. 111. 

Issue by his second wife: 

1. Mary Margaretta Dunlap, was born September 7, 1817> 
and died May ^4, 1818. 

2. James Porter Dunlap, was born May 24, 1819, and died 
June 16, 1837. 

3. Elizabeth V^ioletta Dunlap, was married to Josiah 
Thompson, of Dwight, 111. Issue: Jane, married Dr. Baker, of 
Pontiac, 111.; Mary, married (1), Al. Hains, and had Bert and 
Frank, and (2), Judge Harding, of Pontiac; and Charlotte, liv- 
ing in Chicago. 

4. Robert McDowell Dunlap, was born August 10, 1822, 
and died June 22, 1841. 

5. Richard Thomas Dunlap, was born February 20, 1824, 
and went to Tinnemaha, Cal. 

6. John William Dunlap, was born April 28, 1826, and 
died unmarried, at Dwight, 111., December 3, 1877. 

7. Joseph Irwin Dunlap, of whom presently. 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 217 

8. Margaret Jane Diuilap, was married (1), to Abraham 
Knapper; (2), to Jason Pringle, and (3), to Alexander Trotter. 
By her second marriage she had Joseph D., WilHam and 
Marv Pringle, and by her third marriage she had Margaret 
and Alexander Trotter. 

9. Archibald Bard Dunlap, of whom presently. 

Mrs. Dunlap's father, Robert McDowell, was a son of 
James and Jane (Smith) McDowell. He was born at 
the base of Mount Parnell, June 13, 1766, and died 
October 10, 1806. 

Mary Poe Dunlap, daughter of James and JNIary 
(Bard) Dunlap, was born January 20, 1789, and died 
October 9, 1876. She was married October 27, 1813, 
to James ^McDowell, son of James and Jane (Smith) 
McDowell. He was born December 6, 1782, and died 
April 8, 1861. He was a farmer at Mt. Parnell, 
Peters township, Franklin county, Pa. In 1814, he 
was first lieutenant of Captain Thomas Bard's com- 
pany, which marched to the defense of Baltimore. 
When the Franklin county companies were organized 
into a regiment he was made its adjutant. He was a 
county commissioner of Franklin county, 1815-17. 

Issue : 

1. Mary Bard McDowell, was born August 14, 1814, and 
died unmarried, February 13, 1871. 

2. James Dunlap McDowell, was born March 16, 1816, 
and died unmarried, October 9, 1887. He followed surveying 
and teaching in early life. As a teacher he was held in great 
esteem. In politics he was a Whig and Republican. He was 
very active in the Whig campaign of 1848. In 1851, he was a 
candidate for the Whig nomination for prothonotary, but was 
defeated in the countv convention. He was elected an associate 



218 THE BARD FAMILY 

judge in 1871, and served until 1876, being the last associate 
judge of the county. He was postmaster at Mt. Parnell, 
1870-80. In 1880, he was elected a member of the State 
Legislature, and was one of the independent Republicans who 
refused to support the caucus nominee for United States Sena- 
tor, in 1881-82. 

3. Jane Smith McDowell, was born September 4, 1817, and 
died Julv 24, 1887. She was married to Charles Gillan, son of 
James and Margaret (Reed) Gillan. He was born February 8, 
1819, and died March 24, 1878. He was a former, stock raiser 
and hotel keeper near St, Thomas, Franklin county. Pa. Issue: 
Mary E., married James E. McDowell; James D., a merchant 
at St. Thomas, married Charlotte Johnston; William M., was 
county auditor and prothonotary of Franklin county, and 
married Sarah J. Gillan ; Sarah J.; Margaret C, married Ben- 
jamin F. Huber; and Robert McDowell married Fannie Sellers. 

4. Sarah Margaret McDowell, was born July 26, 1819, and 
died unmarried, October 11, 1872. 

5. Elizabeth Olivia McDowell, was born September 21, 
1821, and died unmarried, December 16, 1878. 

6. William Findlay McDowell, was born June 23, 1824, 
and died February 5, 1890. 

7. Robert Holmes McDowell, was born October 8, 1826, 
and is living at St. Thomas, Franklin countv, Pa. 

8. Catharine Poe McDowell, was born July 12, 1828, and 
died October 19, 1890. She was married to Alexander Camp- 
bell Armstrong, who was born in Franklin countv, Pa., July 1, 
1828, and died at Auburn, Neb., August 13, 1897. They had 
a son, James M. Armstrong, who married Eunice Eulalie 
Skeen. 

Maria Bard, daughter of Judge Archibald and 
Elizabeth (Beatty) Bard, was born October 3, 1801, 
and died October 24, 1830. She was married to 
Adam McKinnie, son of Josiah and Isabel JMcKinnie. 



BARDS OF "CARROLL^S DELIGHT" 219 

He was born near Church-hill, in Peters township, 
Franklin county. Pa. Mr. INIcKinnie was sheriff* of 
Franklin county, 1844 47. 

Issue : 

1. Bard McKinnie. 

Catharine Bard, daughter of Judge Archibald and 
Elizabeth (Beatty) Bard, was born November 12, 
1804, and died in Michigan in 18G1. She was married 
December 4, 1834, to Franklin Darragh, son of 
George Darragh, of McConnellsburg, Pa. After her 
marriage she went west with her husband, and finally 
settled in JNIichigan. 

Issue : 

1. Archibald Bard Darragh, was born December 23, 1840. 
He was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1868, hav- 
ing previously served in the civil war as private and officer initil 
mustered out in 1865. In 1870, he engaged in the banking 
business, in which he is still interested. He has been a Repre- 
sentative in Congress from Michigan since 1901. Mr. Darragh 
was married to Nancy Purviance Culbertson, daughter of Ferdi- 
nand and Lavinia Culbertson. 

George Darragh conducted a tannery at INIcConnells- 
burg, Pa., for many years. 

Mrs. A. B. Darragh's father, Ferdinand Culbertson, was 
a son of Dr. Samuel D. and Nancy (Purviance) Culbert- 
son, of Chambersburg, Pa. Dr. Culbertson was a note- 
worthy physician, l^erdinand Culbertson was born in 
Chambersburg, April 30, 1823, and died at Peoria, 111., 
May 7, 1863. 

Margaret Bard, daughter of Judge Archibald and 
Elizabeth (Beatty) Bard, M^as born July 31, 1806, and 
died September 28, 1885. She was married May 14, 



220 THE Bx\Rl) FAMILY 

1884, to Alexander Erwin McDowell, son of AA'^illiani 
Smith and Mary (Erwin) McDowell. He was a 
fanner in Peters township, Franklin county. Pa., and 
was well known and much esteemed. 

Issue : 

1. Mary Jane McDowell, married William A. McKinnie, 
of whom presently. 

2. Archibald Bard McDowell, of whom presently. 

3. Elizabeth McDowell, married Sanniel H. Johnston, of 
whom presently. 

4. William McDowell. 

Mr. McDowelfs great-grandparents were William and 
Mary McDowell, who settled at the base of Mt. Pai-- 
nell about 1735. His grandparents were James and 
Jane (Smith) McDowell. His father, William Smith 
McDowell, who was born October 20, 1776, and died 
January 23, 1834, was a farmer in Peters township, 
Franklin county, Pa., and a member of the State Legis- 
lature, 1833-34. His mother, Mary Erwin, was born 
January 8, 1781, and died Januai-y 4, 1860. She was 
a daughter of Alexander and Mary (Holmes) Erwin. 
The Erwins were of Scotch extraction and Irish birth. 
His grandfather went from Scotland to Ireland at the 
time of the Battle of the Boyne, and his father was a 
minister of the Established Church. Father and son 
were both Alexander Erwin. Alexander Erwin, the 
younger, was extensively engaged in business before he 
emigrated to Pennsylvania, conducting a tannery and a 
number of stores. He settled at Concord, in Patli 
Valley, Franklin county, Pa., in 1797, where he en- 
gaged in farming. His wife, Mary Holmes, was a lady 
of aristocratic birth, who bore her husband fourteen 
children. 



BARDS OF ''CARROLL'S DELIGHT" ^21 

Isaac* Bard, son of Judge Archibald and Elizabeth 
(Beatty) Bard, was born April 28, 1808, and died 
June 6, 1876. He lived on the Judge Bard home- 
stead until 1851. In the autumn of 1852, he removed 
to Delaware county, Ohio, and is buried in I^iberty 
graveyard, about eiglit miles south of Delaware. Mr. 
Bard was married February 10, 1840, to Rowana 
Humphrey, daughter of David and Nancy (Clark) 
Humphrey. She was born March 17, 1808, and died 
June 23, 1852. 

Issue : 

1. Archibald Bard, was born September 22, 1841, and 
died September 18. 1843. 

2. Mary Agnes Bard, was born January 17, 1844, and 
died July 22, 1894. She was married November 16, 1876, to 
George Carson Cellar, and lived in Delaware county, Ohio, 
until 1888, when she removed to Rhea county, Tenn. Her 
children were George Bard, Joseph Humphrey and Wilson 
Fuller. 

3. Elizabeth Johnston Bard, was born February 3, 1846. 
She was married February 18, 1897, to W. L. Bartlett, of 
New Plymouth, Vinton county, Ohio. 

4. David Humphrey Bard, of whom presently. 

5. Rowana Humphrey Bard, was born January 5, 1852. 

Mrs. Bard's grandfather, David Humphrey, was an 
early settler in Peters township, in what is now Frank- 
lin county. Pa. He died in 1785. His children were 
David, George, Robert, John, William, Jane, wife of 
Oliver Anderson, and Ann. Her father, also David 
Humphrey, was a prominent citizen of Franklin county. 
Her mother was Nancy Clark, daughter of James and 
Nancy (Reed) Clark. James Clark died in 1821. 



222 THE BARD FAMILY 

Martha W. Erwin, daughter of James and Ohvia 
(Bard) Erwin, was born December 6, 1794, and died 
at Pittsburgh, Pa. She was married June 4, 1818, to 
Wilham Rankin. 

Issue : 

1 . James Fjrwin Rankin, of whom presently. 

Olivia Bard Erwin, daughter of James and Ohvia 
(Bard) Erwin, was born July .5, 1807. She was mar- 
ried in 1840, to Valentine Brown McGahan, a 
physician. 

Issue : 

1. Olivia Jane Marv McGahan, was born July 20, 1841. 

2. Katharine Erwin McGahan, was born October 14, 1843. 
She was married ]\Iarch, 1872, to John Valentine Brobst, who 
died in September, 1901. Their children were Samuel Bren- 
and, born Julv, 1874, and Mary Erwin, born September, 1880. 
Marv H Brobst was married March 10, 1902, to John Bolton 
Ackley, of Philadelphia. 

3. James Erwin McGahan, was born November 3, 1845. 
He was married to Henrietta Martin, and had two children 
that died in infancy. 

James Bard Erwin, son of James and Olivia 
(Bard) Erwin, was born April 80, 1810, and died at 
Sewickley, Allegheny county. Pa., October 20, 1883. 
He learned the trade of a tanner with Andrew Mc- 
Elwaine, at Newville, Pa. I^ater he removed to 
Pittsburg, wliere he engaged in business. Mr. Erwin 
was married November 8, 1881, to Isabel McKee 
McElwaine, daughter of Robert McElwaine, of New- 
ville, Cumberland county. Pa. She was born Feb- 
ruary 27, 1809, and died January 6, 1888. 



BARDS OF "CARROLKS DELIGHl" 223 

Issue : 

1. James Bard Erwin, of whom presently. 

2. Robert McElwaine Erwin, of whom presently. 

3. John Richard Erwin, was born July 28, 1838. 

4. Jane Marv Erwin, was born April 21, 1840. She was 
married (1), in 1847, to Jason C. Swayze, who died at Topeka, 
Kan., March 23, 1877, and (2), to Dr. Phineas M. Sturges. 
He was born March, 1816, and died at Topeka, July 10, 1901. 
By her first marriage she had two sons, Horace George and 
Jason Clark Swayze. 

5. Katharine Erwin, was born August 7, 1842. 

6. Thomas McElwaine Erwin, of whom presently. 

7. Sarah Belle Erwin, was born in 1852. She was married 
to Levi A. McKnight. 

The McElwaines were among the earliest settlers of 
the Cumberland Valley. Andrew McElwaine came to 
what is now Mifflin township, Cumberland county, Pa., 
as early as 1729, if not earlier. His farm was what 
has since been known as the "Fountain of Health." 
The massacre of the Williamsons by the Indians 
occurred on an adjoining farm. Mrs. McElwaine was 
the first person to discover the presence of the savages 
in the neighboriiood and give the alarm. Andrew 
McElwaine's son Andrew was the father of Robert 
McElwaine, the father of Mrs. Erwin. Robert McEl- 
waine was born in 1781, and died Janu.ary 18, 1853. 
He was married April 12, 1808, to Jane Shannon. 
She was born in 1790, and died May 12, 1869. 

Richard Bard, son of Captain Thomas and Jane C. 
(McFarland) Bard, was i3om in Peters township, 
FrankHn county, Pa., February 17, 1806, and died at 
Allegheny City, Pa., August 9, 1867. Early in hfe 
he engaged in business in Big Cove, Fulton county, 



224 



THE BAKU FAMILY 



Pa., where he remained until 1843, when he removed 
to Pittsburgh. After his removal he engaged in the 

leather business, in 
which he continued 
until his death. He was 
a man of high charac- 
ter and a prominent 
member of the North 
Presbyterian Church, 
AUeglieny City. He 
was all his life active 
in church work in 
Allegheny, the city of 
his residence. Mr. Bard 
was married in 1832 
to Eliza Jane Carson, 
daughter of Thomas 
and Agnes (King) Car- 
son, of IMercersburg, 
''"''"'' ^'''^- Pa. She was born 

March 23, 181G, and died December, 1860. 

Issue : 

1. Thomas Carson Bard, was born April 10, 1835; he died 
young. 

2. Robert Washington Bard, was born April 20 1837, and 
died at Camp Humphreys, Va., February 11, 1863. He served 
with the Pittsburgh Rifles in the sunnner of 1862, and enlisted 
in Company H, 123rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 
August 9, 1862. He was promoted from sergeant to first ser- 
geant, and participated in the battle of Chancellorsville. 

3. Andrew Melville Bard, was born in 1839, and died 
voinitr. 




BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 225 

4. James William Bard, of whom presently. 

5. Melville Bard, died in Watertown, Dak., in 1885. He 
served through the Civil War with the 1st Ohio Cavalry. 

6. Elliot Bard, of whom presently. 

7. Richard Bard, of whom presently. 

8. Mary Emma Bard, married Alexander L. Boggs, of 
whom presently. 

9. Agnes Carson Bard, married Frank H. Stuchfield, of 
whom presently. 

10. Lillie Jane Bard, married Rev. William A. Edie, of 
whom presently. 

11. Sophia McLaren Bard, married John Diitton Steele, of 
whom presently. 

Mrs. Bard's grandfather, David Carson, was a native of 
the north of Ireland, of Scotch extraction. He was 
born in 1750, and died September 10, 1823. He emi- 
grated to Pennsylvania in 1784, and settled at Green- 
castle. When he came to Pennsylvania he brought 
with him a certificate of good character, signed by the 
dissenting clergyman and other inhabitants of the par- 
ish of Donagheady, in County Tyrone, on the Foyle, in 
the neighborhood of Londonderry. He was a Covenan- 
ter, but at Greencastle, where he remained all his life, 
he connected himself with the Associate Presbvtei'ian 
Church. Four years after his emigration, he visited 
Ireland, where he was married, July 28, 1788, to Jean 
Oliver, a native of Donagheady parish. She was born 
in 1760, and died August 5, 1839. Their children 
were William, Thomas, Elizabeth, James Oliver and 
David. James O. Carson was an associate judge of 
Franklin county. Pa., and one of the leading citizens of 
the county. 

Mrs. Bard's father, Thomas Carson, was born at Green- 
castle, Pa., August 6, 1791, and died at Mercersburg, 



226 THE BARD FAMILY 

Pa., April 26, 1857. He be<^an life as a teacher but 
afterward engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was a 
justice of the peace for many years and served ten 
years in the Pennsylvania Legislature. He was a mem- 
ber of the House, 1834-35, and 1843-44, and was a 
member of the State Senate, 1845-47, and 1851-53. 
During his last term, he was Speaker of the Senate. 
He was married March 25, 1815, to Agnes King, 
daughter of George and Margaret (McDowell) King. 
She was baptized January 30, 1789, and died in the 
summer of 1862. Their children were P^liza Jane, 
Washington King, Thomas, William, Margaret Eme- 
line, David Erskine and Rosanna Mary. Mrs. Carson*'s 
father was a brother of the Rev. John King, D. D., 
for nearly half a century pastor of the Upper West 
Conococheague Presbyterian Church, and her mother 
was a daughter of John jMcDowell, of McDowelPs Mill, 
which is often mentioned in the annals of the French 
and Indian War. 

Robert IVIcFarland Bard, son of Captain Thomas 
and Jane C. (IVIcFarland) Bard, was born in Peters 
township, Franklin county, Pa., December 12, 1809, 
and died in Chambersburg, Pa., January 28, 1851. 
He was educated at the Hagerstown Academy, 
which he left in his twentieth year. In 1830, he 
began the study of the law at Chambersburg, under 
the Hon. George Chambers, and was admitted to the 
Franklin County Bar, January 14, 1834. After com- 
ing to the Bar he went to JNl acomb, 111., intending to 
settle there in the practice of his profession, but 
remained only one year, returning to Chambersburg 
in 1835, where he soon acquired a large and lucrative 
practice. During two years of his brief career at the 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 227 

Chambersburg Bar, 1842 44, JMr. Bard was in part- 
nership with the Hon. James X. JNIcIvanalian, one of 
the leading hiwyers of that period. He soon attained 
a high position at the Bar of his native county, and 
in his later years enjoyed a wide reputation in the 
state as a lawyer of great ability. "Mr. Bard was a 
peculiarly gifted man intellectually," wrote one of 
his contemporaries; "he had a profound knowledge 
of the law, was ardently devoted to his profession, 
managed every case entrusted to him with masterly 
skill and force, and would, had not death removed 
him in the meridian of his years, been one of the 
country's grandest jurists." He possessed an active, 
vigorous and logical mind, and his legal learning was 
extensive and profound. His arguments to the court 
were cogent, and free from prolixity and redundancy. 
His addresses before a jury were eloquent, convinc- 
ing and directed toward presenting the strong points 
of his case clearly and strenuously. He judiciously 
refrained from dwelling at length on matters of 
minor importance. When he gave a legal opinion to 
a client on a difficult point of law he was able to give 
it confidently, because it was the result of the most 
painstaking investigation and study. 

In politics INIr. Bard was a Whig, but he was 
never an aspirant for political office. In 1839, when 
he was only thirty years old, and the public school 
system was in its infancy, he was elected a member 
of the Chambersburg school board, and he was 
chosen Chief Burgess of the borough in 1847. In 
1850, he was nominated for Congress by the Whigs, 
his successful competitor being his former law part- 



228 THE BARD FAMILY 

ner, James X. JMcLanalian. The campaign of that 
year was conducted on the race issue. Poor white 
men were asked to remember that if they did not 
wish to become the companions of negroes, and work 
for ten cents a day or get nothing to do, they must 
vote for James X. JNIcLanalian. The AVliig organ, 
which supported JNIr. Bard, charged that JMr. Mc- 
Lanahan was '* rolhng in wealth." To this the "A al- 
ley Spirit," the Democratic organ, answered that 
Mcl^analian came to Chambersburg with 37|^ cents 
in liis pockets, and tliat if lie had since become 
wealthy it was by dint of hard application to busi- 
ness. Then followed from time to time some remark- 
able political arguments intended to prove to the 
independent voters of the Congress district why they 
should support ^Ir. McLanahan instead of JMr. Card. 

His style of living is much like that of his competitor, 
Mr. Bard, who owns a fine three-storv (luelling and a 
little town of offices somewhat nearer the center of 
aristocratic gravitx than Mr. McLanahan^s residence is 
located. ... A man niav be rich and yet not aristo- 
cratic; or he mav be aristocratic without being rich. 
Of the first class is McLanahan. . . . Poor White 
Men Rememl)er; That while Mr. McLanahan gives the 
work lie has to do to poor white men his Whig com- 
petitor has a negro to do his work. Ask the Whig 
editors if they have ever seen any poor white men saw- 
ing a cord of wood for Mr. Bard for years. They will 
be compelled to sav no. Then ask them if thev ever 
saw a negro sawing wood at Mr. McLanahan's house. 
Thev will have to sav no. ]Mr. McLanahan is in fa\'or 
of supporting the poor white man in preference to the 
nesiTO. Choose which vou will vote for. ... If voii 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT ^^ '2'29 

do not wish your country overwhelmed with idle, la/y 
negroes from Maryland, Virginia and other slave states 
vote for James X. McLanahan for Congress. And ye 
poor men who depend upon your daily labor to gain a 
living for yourselves and families, if you do not wish 
to become the companions of these Negroes, and do 
not wish to work for ten cents a day or else get noth- 
ing at all to do, vote for James X. McLanahan. For 
remember, if the abolitionists get a sufficient number 
of members of Congress, thev will abolish slavery, and 
then the Negroes will overrun the free States, and work 
for less wages and you will be compelled to work for 
the same or have nothing to do. Are you willing to 
work side by side with a negro, for ten cents a day ? 
Are you willing to sleep in the same bed with him? 
Are you willing that the negro shall be the companion 
of your sons aud daughters. If you are not, vote for 
James X. McLanahan for Congress. Think for your- 
selves, poor laboring men and mechanics. The Whig 
editors denounce Mr. McLanahan for voting for a law 
allowing the master to come from Maryland and Vir- 
ginia to reclaim his slave. If Mr. Bard would have 
voted against the measure — and the Whig editors say 
he would — is not this evidence that he is opposed to 
having the slaves taken back, that he wishes them to 
remain among us, to take the place of the poor white 
man, to take away the labor of the white man, and to 
compel the white man to labor for the same wages that 
the negro is willing to take for his services.^ 

This was, perhaps, the only campaign in a X^ortli- 
ern Congress district in ante-bellum days, in which 
the race issue was so boldly urged, or was successful. 
Mr. Bard was a man of strong convictions, with the 
courage to avow them. He was conspicuous as an 



5^30 THE BARD FAMILY 

influential and consistent advocate of temperance at 
a time when opposition to the Rum Power and the 
Slave Power were alike regarded as a species of 
fanaticism. 

JMr. Bard was married February 12, 1839, to P],liza- 
beth Smith Little, daughter of Dr. Peter ^V. and 
Mary S. (Parker) Little, of JMercersburg, Pa. She 
was born December 12, 1813, and died at Hueneme, 
Cal, December 7, 1881. 

Issue : 

1. Mary Parker Bard, born April 15, 1840; lives in 
Chanibersburg, Pa. 

2. Thomas Robert Bard, of whom presently. 

3. Cephas Little Bard, of whom presently. 

4. Louisa Jane Bard, born June 3, 1844; lives in Cham- 
bersburg, Pa. 

Dr. Little's parents were Casper and Susanna Little, 
who lived near Two Taverns, Adams county. Pa. For 
their historv see Little familv in "The Bard Kinship." 

Thomas Poe Bard, son of Captain Thomas and 
Jane C. (JNIcFarland) Bard, was born October 9, 
1811, and died May 31, 1885. He engaged in busi- 
ness as a merchant at JMercersburg, Pa^, and was 
postmaster there, 1841-45. He was prothonotary of 
Frankhn county, 1845-48. In 1850, he removed to 
Virginia, and conducted a foundry, first at Waynes- 
boro, and afterward at Scottsville. He was the first 
foundryman that made and introduced cooking 
stoves in the ^"alley of A^irginia. In 1855, he went to 
Baltimore, and was in business there until failing 
health compelled his retirement in 1875. He had the 
mechanical genius shown by the members of tiie 



BARDS OF "CARROLUS 1)P:LIGHT" 5231 

Bard family, and its characteristic modesty. His life 
was marked by quiet, unobtrusive acts of kindness 
and charity. He was fond of reading, and nexer lost 
his intelligent interest in public questions. Mr. Bard 
was married November 29, 1836, to Matilda Xan 
Lear Cowan, daughter of Hugh and INIary {Van 
Lear) Cowan, of Mercersburg, Pa. She was born 
February 16, 1817, and died March 4, 1880. 

Issue : 

1. Jennie McFarland Bard, was born March 30, 1838. 
She was married October 18, 1866, to William Dugdale, who 
was born January 6, 1842. They have one daughter, Jennie. 

2. Maria Louisa Bard, was born November 6, 1842, and 
died November 19, 1882. 

3. John Edwin Bard, was born January 29, 1845, and 
died June 13, 1845. 

4. Susan Emma Bard, was born May 16, 1848, and died 
July 18, 1848. 

5. William Bard, was born May 10, 1854, and died June 
10, 1854. 

Mrs. Bard's father, Hugh Cowan, was born in 1768, 
and died April 19, 1828. He was a cabinet maker at 
Mercersburg, Pa. He owned the two-story brick build- 
ing adjoining the house owned and occupied by Ur. 
Peter W. Little. Mr. Cowan was married January 3, 
1799, to Mary Van Lear, daughter of Joseph 'and 
Mary (Chambers) Van Lear. She was born near Mer- 
cersburg, Pa., in 1780, and died March 3, 1839. Their 
children were Joseph Van Lear, Maria, Susan, Eliza, 
William, Jane, \'an Lear and Matilda. Mrs. Van Lear 
was a daughter of Rowland Chambers, a descendant of 
Rowland Chambers, one of the earliest settlers in the 
Cumberland Valley. She was born in 1746, and died 



232 



THE BARD FAMILY 



November 9, 1836. The Van Leais were of Dutch 
extraction and early settlers in the Conococheague 
Valley. 

John Bard, son of Captain Thomas and Jane C. 
(McFarland) Bard, was born September 10, 1818, 

and died at Sedalia^ 
Mo., April 16, 1888. 
He learned the trade 
of a tanner, at which 
he was engaged in both 
Pennsylvania and llh- 
nois. About 1843 he 
removed to Winches- 
ter, 111., but in 1859 he 
gave up the tanning 
business, and went m ith 
his family by^ ox team 
to Missouri, where he 
became a farmer. His 
last years were spent at 
Sedalia. JNlr. Bard was 
married February 1, 
1887, to Mary Poe 
Evans, daughter of Jeremiah and Rachel Evans. She 
was born June 10, 1816, and died May 8, 1891. 

Issue : 

1. Richard Alexander Bard, was born December 23, 1837, 
and died in 1873. He was married in 1868, to Lucia Mcin- 
tosh, a Cherokee, who was a handsome curly-haired woman 
and well-educated. They had one son, Daniel. 

2. William Evans Bard, of whom presently. 

3. Robert McFarland Bard, was born August 10, 1842, 




John Bard. 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 5233 

and lives in California. He was married to Arabella Robert- 
son, who died May 13, 1904. Tlieir children were Maude and 
Ora. 

4. Mary Wilkinson Bard, was born October 9, 1844, and 
died August 1, 1845. 

5. Ellen Jane Bard, married Arthur Paine Morey, of 
whom presently. 

6. Kate Bard, was born December 13, 1848, and was mar- 
ried in 1873 to Marcellus Gnarton. They live in Tulsa, Indian 
Territory. Their children are Claude, Rilla Colvic, Nelle, 
Bruce, Lillie, Lottie and Edwin. 

7. Fannie Bard, was born June 11, 1851, and died April, 
1900. 

8. Georgetta Bard, was born May 31, 1854, and was mar- 
ried May 27, 1874, to ^\''illiam S. Young. They live at Pasa- 
dena, Cal. Their children are Etta, Roscoe, Lena, Roxie, 
Aria, Carl and Gerry. 

9. Mattie Homes Bard, was born January 17, 1859, and 
was married in Pettis county. Mo., May 7, 1882, to James 
William Snoddy. Thev live at Warrensburg, Mo. Their chil- 
dren are Ola, Ethel, Lois, Mary, Bard and Laurence, 

Mrs. Bard's parents were Jeremiah and Rachel (Mc- 
Mullen) Evans. He was a son of Richard Evans, and 
his wife a daughter of John and Mary (Poe) McMul- 
len. For the history of the McMullens, see Poe family 
in "The Bard Kinship.^' 

Archibald Bard, son of Captain Thomas and Jane 
C. (INlcFarland) Bard, was born November 9, 1815, 
and died at Dayton, Ky., May 3, 1895. Early in life 
he lived at Ellicott's JNIill, Baltimore county, Md., 
but later removed to Kentucky, where he was 
employed by the government as a bridge builder 
during the Civil War. After the war he was 



234 THE BARD FAMILY 

employed by James L. Haven & Co. for many years. 
His wife, Elizabeth, died August 1, 1895. "The 
Cincinnati Times Star," speaking of the last illness of 
Mr. Bard and his wife, said : " This aged couple are 
now quite alone, all their family being dead. . . . 
The old gentleman is held in the highest estimation 
by all of the community." The last of their children, 
Jennie Bard, died a short time before her parents. 

James McKinnie, son of James and Elizabeth 
(Bard) McKinnie, was born near Mercersburg, Pa., 
and died at Abingdon, 111. He went to New Boston, 
near Cincinnati, about 1835, and subsequently re- 
moved to Abingdon, 111. He was married (1), March 
30, 1820, to Sarah jNIoore, daughter of John INIoore, 
a farmer near Mercersburg, Pa., and (2), to Mrs. 
Jane Scott. 

Issue by his first wife: 

1. James McKinnie, died innnarried. 

2. John McKinnie. 

3. Susanna McKinnie, married Cohn Spence. 

4. Elizabeth McKinnie. 

5. Margaret McKinnie, married Charles Leeper. 

6. Sarah McKinnie, married Cephas Morris. 

7. Rachel McKinnie, married. 

8. Isabella McKinnie. 
Issue by his second wife: 

1. A daughter, married Woodmancey. 

Richard Bard McKinnie, son of James and Eliza- 
beth (Bard) McKinnie, was born near JNIercersburg, 
Pa., in 1800, and died in Ohio. He removed to Gos- 
hen, Clermont county, Ohio, about 1830, making his 
home about twenty-one miles east of Cincinnati. He 



BARDS OF "CARROLL'S DELIGHT" 235 

was married December 9, 1824, to Lydia Sleigle, a 
native of Franklin county, Pa. 

Issue : 

1. Thornton McKinnie. 

2. John McKinnie. 

3. David Elhott McKinnie. 

4. Elizabeth Bard McKinnie, married John McBurnie. 

5. Ann Jane McKinnie, was born February 16, 1833. 

6. Harriet McKinnie. 

7. Mary Belle McKinnie, married Daniel H. Shields, of 
whom presently. 

Josiah McKinnie, son of James and Elizabeth 
(Bard) McKinnie, was born near Mercersburg, Pa., 
and died in Ohio. He removed to Goshen, Clermont 
county, Ohio, about 1830. He was married Septem- 
ber 22, 1814, to Eliza Campbell. 

Issue : 

1. Richard Bard McKinnie. 

2. Samuel McKinnie. 

Catharine McKinnie, daughter of James and 
Elizabeth (Bard) McKinnie, died August 18, 1834. 
She was married February 15, 1816, to Alexander 
McMuUen, son of John and INIary (Poe) McMullen. 
He was born near Mercersburg, Pa,, and died in 
Indiana county in 1863. In 1814, his brother, James 
P. McMullen, was drafted into the service of the 
United States; he volunteered in his brother's stead. 
He went to Indiana county in 1819. 

Issue : 

1. John McMullen 

2. James McMullen. 



236 rHE BARD FAMILY 

3. Thomas McMullen. 

4. Mary Poe McMullen, was baptized March 1, 1818, and 
died unmarried. 

5. Elizabeth McMullen. 

6. Margaret McMullen. 

7. Jane McMullen. 

For a full history of the McMullens see the Poe 
family in "The Bard Kinship.'"' 

Margaret JVIcKinnie, daughter of James and Eliza- 
beth (Bard) Mclvinnie, was born April 2, 1804, and 
died September 28, 1884. She was married April 7, 
1825, to James Turner, son of Josepli and Margaret 
(Porter) Turner. He was born February 2, 1802, 
and died January 26, 1878. He was a native of 
Washington county. Pa. 

-Issue : 

1. Elizabeth Bard Turner, was born January 12, 1826. 
She was married (1), April 11, 1844, to Samuel McCrea, who 
died April 16, 1864. Their children were James Turner, 
killed on a railroad in New York ; John R.; Elizabeth, and 
Margaret, married John Aughev. Mrs. McCrea was married 
(2), October 27, 1874, to Dr. George Irwin. 

2. Joseph Gardner Turner, was born in ^Vashingt()n 
county. Pa., August 17, 1827, and died Maich 3, 1902. He 
was a lay missionary among the Indians in Michigan. He was 
married to Alice McGrew, and had Clifford G., Rankin, PVank 
Porter, James McKinnie, Harry Gardner, Emily Jane, married 
Archibald M. Coleman, Catharine A., married W. C. Knowl- 
ton, and Mary Alice. 

3. Mary Turner, was born September 23, 1828, and died 
November 20, 1881. She was married September 27, 1850, to 
Dr. R. G. L'lughlin, and had two sons, Dickson and Joseph,. 



BARDS OF "CAKROLL^S DELIGHT" 237 

both deceased, ;uid a daughter, Ada, married Blazer, 

and has a daughter Marv. 

4. James McKinnie Turner, of whom presently. 

5. Margaret Porter Turner, was born March 9, 1831. 
She was married December 28, 1852, to Harmon Eveland, and 
has two children, James Turner and Ida, wife of Charles 
Johnston. James Turner Eveland was married to Amanda 
McGrew, and has Porter and George. 

6. (child), was born September 10, 1832, and died October 
3, 1832. 

7. Catharine Turner, was married to John E. Wake- 
field. 

8. William Turner, was born April 28, 1836, and died 
April 21, 1902. He was married March 3, 1864, to Enuna 
Hill, and had four children: Frank, Harrv, Alice, wife of J. 
C. Revburn, and Virginia. 

9. Nathaniel Porter Turner, was born January 28, 1838. 
He was married to Sarah Lowe, of Providence, R. I., and ]ias 
Ella and Jane. 

10. Eleanor Turner, was born February 28, 1840, and 
died January 19, 1891. She was married February 28, 1860, 
to ^Villiam T. Ramsev, with whom she removed to the neigh- 
borhood of Lawrence, Kan. They had William and four other 
children. 

11. Lydia Jane Turner, was born February 2, 1842, and 
was married to Theodore B. \'aughan, with whom she removed 
to Newcastle, Ind. 

12. Richard Bard Turner, was born December 3, 1843, 
and went to Miamiville, Ohio. He was married to Margaret 
Buckingham, and had John, James, Lulu, Viola and Alice. 

13. \'iolette Louisa Turner, was born February 16, 1845, 
and was married to Joseph P. Lintner, a clothier at Blairsville, 
Pa. Their children were James Edgar, Jesse Bard and Mary 
Ellen, married Dr. George Hunter. James E. Lintner was 



238 THE BARD FAMILY 

married to Ella B. Snyder, and had Antes, Ediijar, George 
Bard, Frederick and Louisa. 

Mr. Turner^s grandfather, Adam Turner, was among 
the early settlers of the Conococheague Valley, but 
removed to Westmoreland county before the Revolu- 
tion, making his home near Hannastown. Owing to 
the Indian troubles, in 1782, when Hannastown was 
burnt, he returned to Franklin countv with his family. 
His father, Joseph Turner, was born in the Conoco- 
cheague Valley in 1771, and died in Indiana county, 
Pa., March 17, 1847. He spent his childhood in West- 
moreland county but was brought back to the Conoco- 
cheague in 1782. He migrated to the neighborhood of 
Campbell's Mills, near Jacksonville, in Indiana county» 
Pa., in 1794. He was married to Margaret Porter, of 
Washington county. Pa. She was born in 1767 and 
died May 11, 1849. Their children were James and 
Nathaniel Porter. 



IV 



JOSEPH IRWIN DUNLAP, son of James and 
*^ Jane S. (McDowell) Dunlap, was born April 24, 
1828, and died November 1, 1879. He went to 
Dwight, 111,, after his marriage. He w^as married 
October 2, 1851, to Martha PI (Trubb. She was born 
March 24, 1830, and died January 9, 1895. 

Issue : 

1. Annie V. Dunlap, was born (X'tober 8, 1852, and died 
December 28, 1870. 

2. .lames McDowell Dunlap, was born June 9, 1854, and 
died April 7, 1881. 

3. Clara A. Dunlap, was born March 30, 1856, and died 
May 25, 1893. She was married November 7, 1886, to William 
F. Pahner. Their children were Frank, born July 24, 1887, 
and Clarence W., born March 30, 1889. 

4. Ella J. Dunlap, was born September 16, 1857, and died 
June 30, 1879. 

5. Mary Dunlap, was born June 12, 1860, and died Febru- 
ary 22, 1885. She was married September, 1880, to John 
Baker. Their children were: Claire, born July 20, 1881 ; Irwin, 
born September 16, 1882; and Caroline, born December 30, 
1883. 

6. John Archibald Dunlap, was born November 15, 1868. 
He is living at Madison, Wis. He was married September 12, 
1897, to Fannie Lee Bard, daughter of Richard and Phoebe 
(Livingston) Bard, of Le Claire, la. She was born April 8, 
1866. They have one daughter, Fannie Louisa, born August 
20, 1898. 

(239) 



240 THE BARD 1 AMIIA' 

Archibald Bard Diinlap, son of James and Jane 
S. (McDowell) Dunlap, was born September 25, 
1832, and died August 4, 1883. He lived at D wight, 
111. He was married April 27, 1865, to Eliza A. 
Ingraham. 

Issue : 

1. Irwin C. Dunlap, was born February 18, 1866, and died 
September 28, 1867. 

2. Jennie M. Dunlap, was born September 29, 1867. 

3. Archibald Bard Dunlap, was born October 5, 1869, and 
died May 22, 1898. 

4. Anna G. Dunlap, was born December ^, 1871. She 
was married September 15, 1897, to Dr. Grant Houston. 

5. Thomas McD. Dunlaj), was born March 16, 1874, and 
died December 19, 1874. 

6. Mary E. Dunlap, was born December 21, 1875. 

Mary Jane McDowell, daughter of Alexander E. 
and Margaret (Bard) McDowell, was born in Peters 
township, Franklin county. Pa., in 1835, and died 

December 6, 1856. She was married (1), to 

Rhodes, who died soon after their marriage, and (2), 
February 6, 1856, to William A. McKinnie, son of 
Robert and Ehza (Waddell) McKinnie. 

Issue: 

1. Alexander McKinnie, born in December, 1856, and 
died aged one year. 

For Mr. McKinnie's history, see Poe family in "The 
Bard Kinship.'"' 

Archibald Bard McDowell, son of Alexander E. 
and ]\Iargaret (Bard) McDowell, was born October 
20, 1837, and died November 12, 1884. He was a 
farmer of Peters township, Franklin county. Pa., and 



BARDS OF "CARROLL'S DELIGHT" 241 

a highly esteemed citizen. He was married April 28, 
1859, to JMargaretta McKimiie, daughter of Robert 
and Eliza (Waddell) ^IcKinnie. 

Issue : 

1. Alexander Bard McDowell, was born June 8, 1861. 

2. Annabella McDowell, was born October 18, 1862. 

3. Robert Smith McDowell, was born June 20, 1864. 

4. Mary Jane McDowell, was born June 4, 1866. 

Elizabeth Bard McDowell, daughter of Alexander 
E. and Margaret (Bard) McDowell, was married 
January 10, 1870, to Samuel Houston Johnston, son 
of James H. and Nancy (Rankin) Johnston. He was 
born at Fairfield, Adams county, Pa., December 28, 
1837, his father being at that time a contractor on 
the "Tapeworm" Railroad. He was reared to man- 
hood in Fulton county. Pa. In 1863, he enlisted in 
the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry, serving with Com- 
pany H one year. In 1877, he removed to Franklin 
county, purchasing the old Judge Bard homestead, 
near Lemasters. In 1901, he built the house in 
which he now lives in the borough of Mercersburg. 

Issue : 

1. James McDowell Johnston, was horn January 29, 1877. 

2. Maggie Johnston. 

3. Nannie Johnston. 

4. Mary Johnston. 

Mr. Johnston's grandfather, Thomas Johnston, was 
l)orn in Lancaster county, Pa., January 20, 1751, and 
died in Peters township, Franklin county. Pa., Peb- 
i-uary 5, 1829. He was one of the founders of the 
Associate Reformed Church at Mercersburg. He was 
married Decemher 31, 1778, to Annie Houston. She 



242 THE BARD FAMILY 

was born December 25, 1760, and died August 18, 
1823. 

Mr. Johnston's father, James Houston Johnston, was 
born near Mercersburg, Pa., June 1, 1797, and died in 
Fulton county. Pa., June 2, 1879. He was married 
February 2'3, 1822, to Nancy Rankin. She died Au- 
gust 8, 1887. 

David Humphrey Bard, son of Isaac and Rowana 
(Humphrey) Bard, was born December 5, 1848. He 
went to Delaware county, Ohio, with his parents, and 
lives at Westerville, where he is engaged in business 
as a manufacturer. He was married December 25, 
1878, to Sarah Elizabeth INIcDowell, daughter of 
Capt. William Erwin and Rebecca Jane (Gillan) 
McDowell. She died April 2, 1901. 

Issue : 

1. William Fuller Bard, was born March 20, 1880. 

2. Lottie Eliza Bard, was born December 29, 1881. 

3. Nellie Rowana Bard, was born December 5, 1885, and 
died May 19, 1901. 

4. Mary McDowell Bard, was born June 18, 1894. 

Mrs. Bard's father, Capt. ^Villiam Erwin McDowell, 
was a son of William Smith and Mary (Erwin) Mc- 
Dowell. He was born in August, 1824, and died at 
BloomHeld, Neb., July 4, 1892. He was a farmer in St. 
Thomas township, Franklin county. Pa., and a ruling 
elder of the St. Thomas Presbyterian church. He was 
connnissioned captain of Company I, 158th Regt., Pa. 
Vols., November 4, 1862, and was mustered out August 
12, 1863. In 1883 he removed to Nebraska, settling in 
Hitchcock county. His wife, Rebecca Jane Gillan, was 
a daughter of James and Margaret (Reed) Gillan. She 
was born August 22, 1826, and died September 4, 1877. 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 243 

James Erwiii Rankin, son of AVilliani and Martha 
W. (Erwin) Rankin, was married to Kate ^^^armcastle. 

Issue : 

1. AVilliani Rankin, died in Chicago, Ih. He was married 
to Fannie Glass, and had a daughter, Sarah Erwin Rankin, 
wife of Dr. Wilhani T. Hughes, a dentist of Pittsburgh, Pa. 

2. Lewis Rankin, was married to Conrad. 

3. George Rankin, was married to Fainiie Glass Rankin, 
widow of his brother William. 

4. John Erwin Rankin, was born February 9, 1867. He is 
in the employ of the Westinghouse Airbrake Company, Wil- 
merding. Pa. He was married to Mary Ada Westfall, daughter 
of Ezra Billing and Mary Ann (Bindsly) Westfall. She was born 
June 30, 1867. They have two children, Carl Stancliff, born 
December 28, 1892, and Lillian May, born October 24, 1901. 

5. Birdie Rankin, was married to Frank W. Clark, of West 
Virginia, and has two children. 

James Bard Erwin, son of James Bard and Isabel 
JNleKee (INIcElwain) Erwin, was born November 20, 
1832, and died at Zelionople, Butler county, Pa., 
January 22, 1902. He was a carpenter and builder. 
He was married July 4, 18.59, to Elizabeth Deborah 
Grady, daughter of David Cxrady. She was born 
June 23, 1832. 

Issue : 

1. Ellen Whallev Erwin, was born April 8, 1860, and was 
married April 30, 1889, to Charles Augustus Geisseheiner. 
Issue: Carl Augustus, born February 19, 1890; Catharine 
Erwin, born Mav 15, 1892; Paul Luther, born June 8, 1894; 
Bard Erwin, born July 21, 1896; Rebekah Elizabeth, born 
July 16, 1899; and George Washington, born February 14, 
1905. 



244 THE BARD FAMILY 

52. Minnie Roll Kvwin. was l)()rn August J24, 18652, and was 
married April 8, 1890, to John Priehard; they have a daui^hter 
Elizabeth, born August 16, 1894. 

3. Charles Shannon Erwin, was born October 27, 1865, 
and was married October 8, 1889, to Alice Wen/el. She was 
born October 16, 1869. Their children are George Anthony, 
born May 30, 1891, Rachel Elizabeth, born June 30, 1893, 
and Wenzel \\'e\ man, bt)rn March 15, 1898, and died October 
21, 1903. 

4. Henry Rard Erwin, was born March 17, 1868. 

5. Jane Emily Erwin, was married to Samuel E. Bowers. 

6. Elizabeth Maria Erwin, was born October 27, 1873, and 
was married October 21, 1893, to -John L. Smith, of Chicago, 
111.; they had a son. Bard Erwin, that died in infancy. She 
was married (2) June 7, 1903, to Hiram Elmer Boyd. 

Mrs. Erwin's grandfather, Elisha (xrady, was appointed 
ensign in Capt. David Stockton's company, fourth 
battalion, York County Associators, June 17, 1779. 

Robert McElwaine Erwin, son of James Bard and 
Isabel JMcKee (McKhvaine) Erwin, was born January 
6, 1884, and died in Sewickley, ^Vlleglieny county. 
Pa., June 4, 1902. He was married in 1864 to Ann 
Ecea Tracy, who was born March 17, 1840, and died 
August 4, 1891. Slie was the daughter of Bruce 
1 racy. 

Issue : 

1. John Dickson Erwin, was born February 8, 1865, and 
died the same day. 

2. Katharine Bruce Erwin, was born April 29, 1866, and 
was married October 18, 1888, to William H. White, son of 
Judge J. W. F. and Mary H. A. (Thorn) White. Their child- 
ren are AVilliam, Kathryn, Esther and Ennna. 

3. Anna May Erwin, was born December 9, 1868. and was 



BARDS OF "CARROLL'S DELIGHT" 245 

married March 5, 1889, to Samuel Robert Cunningham. Their 
children are Anna May, iNlarv Roe, Samuel Robert, Bruce 
Tracy, Katharine Erwin, Sarah Lawson and George Oliver, 

4. William Kin<*;sley Erwin, was born September 8, 1870, 
and died March 29, 1897. 

5. Robert McElwaine Erwin, was born July 30, 1874, anfl 
was married to Florence Bevington. 

6. Walter Tracy Erwin, was born June 15, 1876, and died 
November 3, 1877. 

7. Edward Eaton lii-eniKud l^rwin, was boi-n February 15, 
1879. 

8. Jane Tracy Erwin was born June 18, 1884. She was 
married March 11, 1903, to Neil J. McKeefrey, of Leetonia, 
Ohio, and has a daughter, Jane Erwin, born April 1, 1904. 

Thomas McElwaine Erwin, son of James Bard 
and Isabel McKee (McElwaine) Erwin, was born 
October 12. 1844. He was married (1), Jarmary 14, 
1869, to Jennie Calhoun Neemes, a native of England. 
She was born July, 1846, and died April 27, 1879. 
He was married (2), April 16, 1880, to Alice Jenkins, 
who was born February 19, 1858, 

Issue bv his first wife: 

1. Louise Wilson Erwin, was born August 7, 1871. She 
was married April, 16, 1901, to John Wesley AVhite, and has 
a son, John Wesley, born December 22, 1904, 

2. Mary Belle Erwin, was married March 26, 1891, to 
Jesse T. Venning, and had Margaret Hamilton, born May 26, 
1892, and Jesse Neemes, born June 5, 1894. 

3. Scott Ward Erwin, was born March 21, 1874, and was 
married December 31, 1901, to Katharine Graeff, of Lancaster, 
Pa.; they have Catharine Poe, born November 22, 1902, and 
Richard Bard, born March 19, 1904. 



246 THE BARD FAMILY 

Issue by his second wife : 

1. Frank Howard Erwin, was born November 25, 1886. 

2. Russell C. P^rwin, was boi-n January 10, 1889, and 
died July, 1889. 

3. Jay Clyde Erwin, was born January 7, 1891. 

4. Alice Erwin, was born April 25, 1894, and died 
August, 1895. 

James William Bard, son of Richard and Eliza 
Jane (Carson) Bard, was born in 1841, and died at 
Baton Rouge, La., in 1874. He enlisted in Company 
A, of the Roundhead regiment, lOOth Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, August 22, 1861; was captured in the 
first skirmish in which his regiment was engaged, 
June 3, 1862, but was exchanged in time to partici- 
pate in the battle of L^redericksburg. He was pro- 
moted to be sergeant, February 1, 1863, and went 
with his regiment to Kentucky, jNIississippi and 
Tennessee. He reenlisted January 1, 1864, and was 
promoted to be sergeant major, INIarch 18, 1864. He 
was severely wounded in the knee, in the battle of 
Spottsylvania, on the 1 3th of JNIay, and only escaped 
losing his leg, by amputation, by threatening the 
surgeons with a pistol. He was promoted to be 
second lieutenant, August 7, 1864; captain, October 
16, 1864; and major, INIarch 25, 1865. After the war 
he was in business in Pittsburgh, but went to 
Louisiana, in 1872, and was engaged in cotton-pack- 
ing, at Baton Rouge. He died of lock-jaw, resulting 
from his arm being badly mangled by machinery. 
Major Bard was married, in 1870, to INlary Clark, 
now deceased, daughter of James D. Clark, of New 
Castle, Pa. They had no issue. 



BARDS OF "CARROLL^S DELIGHT" 247 

Elliot Bard, son of Ricliard and Eliza Jane (Car- 
son) Bard, was born at Allegheny City, Pa., De- 
cember 19, 1843. He is a manufacturer, in Philadel- 
phia, and lives at A\^ayne, Pa. He was married, April 
23, 1872, to JNlary JNl. Frazier, daughter of James and 




PhntPi^rnpl! taken m iSh; 

Standing — James William Bard and Andrew Melville Bard. 
Sitting — Elliot Bard and Richard Bard. 



5248 THE BARD FAMILY 

Margaret (Rex) Frazier, of Pittsburgh, Pa. She was 
born June 9, 184G. 

Issue : 

1. James Frazier Bard, was born May 4, 1874. He was 
married Mav 10, 1898, to Anna Cochran Johnson, and has 
Catharine Frazier, Richard Johnson, and Elhot. 

2. Margaret Carson Bard, was born May 14, 1877. She 
possesses a soprano voice of unusual compass and sweetness, 
and spent two vears in musical study in Paris, under Escalais 
and Archainibaud. She was married, October 7, 1902, to Elie 
P'ritz Gustave Henri Faure, of Paris. He is an electrical en- 
gineer. They have a son, Gustave Melville Bard Faure. 

Richard Bard, son of Richard and Eliza Jane 
(Carson) Bard, was born in Allegheny City, Pa., 
December 31, 1845. He hves in Pittsburgh, Pa. He 
was married September 21, 1871, to Ellen INIore- 
head, daughter of Hugh Henderson and Rachel 
(Falls) iMorehead, of Xew Castle, Pa. She was born 
November (3, 1847. 

Issue : 

1. Eva Morehead Bard, was born September 28, 1873. 

2. Richard Bard, was born February 21, 1876. 

3. Andrew Melville Bard, was born September 29, 1879, 
and died October 3, 1884.' 

4. Thomas Henderson Bard, was born February 11, 1882. 

Mary Emma Bard, daughter of Richard and Eliza 
Jane (Carson) Bard, was married to Alexander 
Lowrey Boggs, son of Alexander and Susan (Greer) 
Boggs. He is engaged in business in Baltimore, Md. 

Issue : 

1. Clara Louise Boggs, was married to Henry H. Pancoast, 
M. D., son of Dr. Seth and Susan (Osborne) Pancoast, of Phil- 



BARDS OF "CARROLUS DELIGHT" 249 

adelphia. He is on the medical staff* of the Hospital of the 
University of Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Boggs is a great-grandson of Andrew and Ann 
Boggs, early settlers in Donegal, Lancaster county, Pa., 
and members of Donegal Presbyterian Church. Andrew 
Boggs died April 9, 1765, and Ann, his wife, February 
6, 1789, in her 75th year. His grandfather, Alexander 
Boggs, was born October 7, 1755, and died March 30, 
1839. His wife, Ann Alricks, daughter of Hermanus 
Alricks, was born October 7, 1760, and died Septem- 
ber 20, 1847. Alexander Boggs lived at Marietta, Lan- 
caster county. Pa., where his son, Alexander Boggs, 
was born. 

Agnes Carson Bard, daughter of Richard and 
Eliza Jane (Carson) Bard, was born at Allegheny 
City, Pa., January 29, 1851. She was married Sep- 
tember 2, 1875, to Frank H. Stuchfield, of Allegheny 
City, Pa., son of William Davis and Naomi (Rhodes) 
Stuchfield, of Hanwell, England. JMr. Stuchfield 
died at New Brighton, Pa., August 14, 1900. He 
was engaged in the coal business and later in the 
manufacture of paper, at New Castle, Pa. In 1886, he 
removed to New Brighton, Pa., where he engaged 
in the pottery business. 

Issue : 

1. Bessie Bard Stuchfield, was born June 20, 1876. 

2. Ellen Davis Stuchfield, was born October 7, 1879. 

3. Frank Bard Stuchfield, was born March 21, 1882. 

4. Cora Lotta Stuchfield. 

Lillie Jane Bard, daughter of Richard and Eliza 
Jane (Carson) Bard, was born in Allegheny City, Pa., 
July 29, 1854, and was educated at the Bishop Bow- 



250 THE BARD FAMILY 

man Institute, in Pittsburgh, Pa. She was married 
in the North Presbyterian Church, Allegheny City, 
September 25, 1878, to the Rev. AViUiam Alexander 
Edie, a native of A llegheny county. Pa. At the time 
of their marrage, INIr. Edie was pastor of the First 
United Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Md. In 
August, 1880, he became pastor of the II. P. Church, 
at Beaver, Pa., and in February, 1887, he accepted a 
call to the First Presbyterian Church, of Connells- 
ville, Pa., of which he remains pastor. In these three 
pastoral charges, Mrs. Edie lias been her husband's 
faithful companion and helper, taking an active and 
influential part in religious and charitable work. She 
has been prominent in W. C. T. U. circles in Beaver 
and Fayette counties, and for twelve years she was 
president of the Connellsville W. C. T. U. 

Issue : 

1. Elliot Bard Edie, was born in Baltimore, Md,, July 25, 
1879. He was graduated M. D. at Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, in 1904, and appointed on the staff of Meix-y 
Hospital, Pittsburgh. 

2. Mary Carson Edie, was born in Beaver county. Pa., 
May 27, 1882. 

3. William Woodburn Edie, was born in Connellsville, Pa., 
May 9, 1889. 

Sophia McLaren Bard, daughter of Richard and 
Eliza Jane (Carson) Bard, was born in Allegheny 
City, Pa., September 20, 1856, and died July 29, 1899. 
She was educated at the Pittsburgh Female College, 
and was married in April, 1885, to John Dutton 
Steele, of Coatesville, Pa. His parents were Quakers, 
but he was a member of the Protestant Episcopal 



BARDS OF "CARROLUS DELIGHT" 251 

Church. At the time of his marriage he was hving 
at McKeesport, Pa., where he died in April, 1887. 
After his death, his widow removed to Coatesville, 
where she was active in the work of the W. C. T. U. 

Issue : 

1. Hugh Exton Steele, was born in McKeesport, Pa., July, 
1886. He was graduated at the Baltimore City Polytechnic 
School and later at Lehigh University. 

2. Hannah Bard Steele, was born at Coatesville, Pa., No- 
vember, 1887. She was educated at the High School at Wayne, 
Pa., and at the Bryn Mawr College. 

Thomas Robert Bard, son of Robert INIcFarland 
and Elizabeth S. (Little) Bard, was born at Cham- 
bersburg. Pa., December 8, 1841. He was educated 
at the Chambersburg Academy, and began the study 
of the law under the Hon. George Chambers, at 
Chambersburg. Impaired health led him to abandon 
his preparation for the Bar and engage in a more 
active business life. He became a member of the 
forwarding and commission house of Zeller tV Co., at 
Hagerstown, INId., in 1861, and also served the Cumber- 
land ^^alley Railroad at that place until August, 1864. 
During this period he saw some dangerous service as 
a volunteer scout in the successive invasions of Mary- 
land and Pennsylvania by the Confederates. One 
day, with a companion, he penetrated the lines of the 
enemy and was captured. They were on the point of 
being hanged as spies, when a sudden rush of Union 
cavalry rescued them from their distressing situation. 
In the autumn of 1864, Thomas A. Scott, Assistant 
Secretary of War and afterwards president of the 



252 THE BARD FAMILY 

Pennsylvania Railroad, was in search of a capable 
young man to take charge of his extensi\'e interests 
in southern California, which included oil lands that 
it was believ ed would ri\ al the oil regions of Pennsyl- 
vania. JNIr. Bard was chosen for the work, and after 
spending several months in Colonel Scott's office, was 
placed in control of his holdings in \ entura, Los 
Angeles and Humboldt counties, comprising about 
277,000 acres. These holdings included 113,000 acres 
in Rancho Simi; 26,600, T.as Posas; 48.000, San 
Francisco; 10,000, Callegnas; 45,000, El Rio de 
Santa Clara O'la Colonia; 6,600 in the Canad Clara, 
and 16,000 in the Ojai. At that time there were not 
more than a dozen Americans in the entire region. It 
was not long, howe\'er, imtil squatters began to swarm 
over a part of Scott's land. In the description of the 
old Rancho la Colonia one line ran from a certain 
monument to a point on the Santa Barbara channel 
shore between two esteros. Lagoons were numerous 
along that shore, and it was easy for a designing and 
unscrupulous person to raise a doubt in regard to the 
two esteros between which the Rancho line ran. A 
Sacramento lawyer asserted tliat the line ran to a 
point near wliere the Hueneme lighthouse now 
stands. This was in direct conflict with Scott's claim, 
and would liave deprived him of about 17,000 acres 
of as rich, level land as was to be found along the 
coast. The lawyer set on the squatters, who at once 
began to drop down on the 17,000 acres. Scott in- 
sisted on his claim, and Bard was on the ground to 
defend his rights and to drive the squatters off. The 
settlers talked "shoot" and "hang," but Bard kept 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" ^53 

after them. At the outset, he had a survey made by 
the United States Surveyor General, and, as the hne 
fitted the Seott claim, he was unyielding in enforcing- 
it. The conflict lasted for years with varying for- 
tunes. The settlers stole a march on Scott by obtain- 
ing a decision in their favor from the Land Office at 
Washington, but Scott succeeded in having it re- 
versed, and it has remained reversed to this day. 
When Grover Cleveland became President, the 
squatters made their last attempt to get the Colonia 
lands, but Attorney General Garland upheld the old 
Scott line and that was the end of it. During all 
these years of conflict Bard was on the flring-line. He 
had desperate men to deal with but he never flinched. 
He kept the courts of the county busy dealing with 
the cases of the squatters. After he had won, he 
dealt so generously with the men who had been his 
bitter enemies that they became his friends. 

While Mr, Bard was Colonel Scott's agent he had 
some thrilling experiences. The California Petroleum 
Company was organized to develop the oil on Scott's 
holdings. W^ell No. 1 was put down on the Ojai 
country, and there Bard made his home when he flrst 
went to southern California. One night in 1874 he 
was the victim of an attempted ""hold-up" while 
driving to No. 1 on the Ojai with a large sum of 
money in his possession. He had forgotten his pistol, 
but the landlord at the hotel where he received the 
money, loaned him an old derringer with which to 
defend himself in case of attack. He was dri^ ing 
four-in-hand. It was not an easy thing to hold up 
four bronchos on the run, but on an up grade a man 



254 THE BARD FAMILY 

got in front of the leaders, while another came to 
the forward wheels demanding Bard's money. Bard 
blazed away with the ancient derringer, missing his 
man, but hurting himself with the old weapon, the 
handle of which bursted in his hand. Frightened by 
the explosion the leaders dashed forward and Bard 
was out of reach of the higliwaymen. Desperadoes 
among the squatters on the Scott lands and other bad 
men plotted to take Mr. Bard's life on a number of 
occasions, but these plots always failed. These antag- 
onisms have passed away, and now he is held in the 
highest esteem by all classes in southern California 
for what he has achieved for the development of his 
section of the state. 

AVhen jNIr. Bard went to California, A^entura 
county, in which he lives, was part of Santa Barbara. 
He was supervisor of the A^entura district, 1868-72, 
and when A^entura county was formed in the latter 
year he was one of the three commissioners to set the 
county government going. In 1877 he was the Re- 
publican candidate for State Senator from the district 
comprising Aentura, Santa Barbara and San Luis 
Obispo counties; he carried tlie first two but was 
beaten by liis Democratic opponent in San Luis 
Obispo by a small margin. In 1892 he was on the 
Republican electoral ticket, and was chosen a Presi- 
dential elector, although tlie Democrats carried the 
rest of their ticket. He received more votes on the 
close poll than the three lowest of the Democratic 
candidates. In 1899 the California Legislature failed 
to electa United States Senator, and the "dead-lock" 
was not broken until February, 1900, when IMr. Bard 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 255 

was chosen. He was not a candidate and his election 
was a surprise. In the Senate he soon acquired the 
respect of that august body for his wide knowledge 
of the interests and needs of the Pacific Slope. He 
was chairinan of the Senate Committee on Irrigation. 
The term for which he was elected expired March 4, 
1905. 

Senator Bard has been a successful business man. 
He has extensive landed interests in Ventura and 
adjoining counties. At his home in Hueneme, called 
"Berylwood," after his eldest daughter, he indulges 
his taste for gardening, and has succeeded in develop- 
ing two new roses that he named " Beauty of Beryl- 
wood" and "Dr. Bard." In religion he is a Presby- 
terian. He built the handsome little Presbyterian 
church at Hueneme, in which he is a ruling elder and 
superintendent of the Sunday school. He has repre- 
sented California in the General Assembly of the 
Presbyterian church. 

JMr. Bard was married April 17, 1876, to Mary 
Beatrice Gerberding, daughter of Christian Otto and 
Mary J. (Hempson) Gerberding. She was born Jan- 
uary 23, 1858. The marriage took place at the home 
of Mrs. M. J. Gerberding, 1218 Clay street, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal., the Rev. Dr. Piatt, rector of Grace church, 
San Franciso, Cal., officiating. 

Issue: 

1. Robert Bard, was born at "Berylwood," near Hueneme, 
Cal., February 12, 1877, and died December 31, 1878. 

2. Beryl Beatrice Bard, was born at "Berylwood," Septem- 
ber 19, 1878. 

3. Mary Louise Bard ("Kitty"), was born at "Berylwood," 



256 THE BARD FAMILY 

January 4, 1883. She was inarried, August 26, 1905, to Roger 
Gaythorne Edwards, of Santa Barbara, Cal. 

4. Anna Greenwell Bard, was born at Santa Barbara, Cal., 
October 5, 1884. 

5. Thomas Gerberding Bard, was born at "Beryl wood," 
March 7, 1886. 

6. Elizabeth Parker Bard, was born at Santa Barbara, Cal., 
July 28, 1888. 

7. Richard Bard, was born at "Bervlwood,"''' February 17, 
1892. 

8. Archibald Philip Bard, was born at *•' Berylwood," 
October 25, 1898. 

Mrs. Bard's father, Christian Otto Gerberding, was a 
natiye of Bremen, Germany, and died in San Francisco, 
Cal., December 24, 1863. He emigrated to the United 
States as a young man and went to California in Jan- 
uary, 1850, where he was joined by Mrs. Geberding in 
1851. He was associated with James King, of William, 
in founding the "San Francisco Eyening Bulletin," in 
1855, of which he was one of the owners until 1861. 
He was married at Liberty, Bedford county, Va.^ 
November 16, 1846, to Mary J. Hempson. She was 
born at Richmond, \'a., September 29, 1827, and died 
at San Francisco, Cal., August, 1903. Issue: 

1. Clara Winter Gerberding, married Dr. Cephas L. 
Bard. 

2. Frederick William Gerberding, was born Febi'uary 
22, 1849, and died at Hueneme, Cal., August 8, 1905, 
He was married, August 5, 1890, to Anna H. Sherer. 
They had three children : Anna Mary, born August 5, 
1901; Christian Otto, born March, 1893; and Dorothy, 
born, October 5, 1895. 

3. Albert Gerberding, was born January 26, 1852. 
He was married to Mrs. Elizabeth (Sears) Bates, who 



BARUS OF "CARROLLS DELIGHT" ^257 

died at the home of Sherman P. Stow, at Galeta, near 
Santa Barbara, Cal., March, 1904. They had one 
daughter, Beatrice Gerberding, born January, 1896. 

4. Annie Kendall Gerberding, was born October 9, 
1853, and died November 26, 1854. 

5. Edwin Otto Gerberding, was born September 24, 
1855. He was married (1), to Grace Rivenberg, who 
died in 1895, and (2), October 4, 1898, to Agnes 
Ba^nist, a native of Edmonton, Middlesex, England. 
By his first marriage he had a son, Thomas R. Bard 
Gerberding, born August, 1889, and by his second 
marriage a daughter, Winifred Alice Gerberding, born 
May 31, 1900. 

6. Mary Beatrice Gerberding, married Thomas R. Bard. 

Cephas Little Bard, son of Robert McFarland 
and Elizabeth S. (Little) Bard, was born at Chani- 
bersburg, Pa., April 7, 1843, and died in San Buena- 
ventura, Cal., April 20, 1902. He was educated at 
the Chambersburg Academy. After leaving school 
he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. 
Abraham H. Senseny, in Chambersburg, but his 
studies were interrupted by his enhstment in Com- 
pany A, 126th Regiment, Pennsylvania^ A^olunteers, 
August 11, 1862. He participated in the sanguinary 
battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, and the 
battle of Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. Upon his 
being mustered out with his regiment, May 20, 1863, 
he resumed his medical studies and was graduated 
M.D., at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 
in 1864. Soon after receiving his degree he was ap- 
pointed assistant surgeon of the 210th Regiment, 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the close 



258 THE BARD FAMILY 

of the war. After the war he began the practice of 
his profession in his native county, but, in 1868, he 
left Chambersburg to begin a new and remarkable 
career as a practitioner in southern Cahfornia. 
Dr. Bard was the first American physician, with a 
diploma, that settled in \^entura county, of which he 
was one of the pioneers. He became an integral 
part of the county — a fixed figure in its social and 
civic life. With him the hardships that befall a 
country physician with a large practice, had no power 
to draw him to a large city, where the routine of his 
professional life would be easier and the emoluments 
greater. He found his reward in the gratitude, love 
and esteem that the people he served so unselfishly, 
bestowed upon him. It was a common occurrence 
with him to risk his life in the roaring Santa Clara 
when the summons came to him from a patient on a 
winter night. "Oh, I have to do it," was his own 
comment on his unselfish devotion to duty. He 
always felt the keenest satisfaction in the success of 
his professional efforts. For more than thirty years 
there was no public highway in \"entura county so 
long, or mountain trail so distant, that it was not 
traversed by him again and again on his errands of 
mercy. He knew nearly every man, M^oman and 
child in the county; knew their names, their disposi- 
tions, their ailments and their limitations. The ten- 
acity of his memory was as marvelous as the accuracy 
of his knowledge. His quick intuitions made him a 
leader of men as well as a skillful and unerring 
physician. After his death, the Ventura Society of 
Pioneers, of which he was the virtual founder, un- 



BARDS OF "CARROLLS DELIGHT ^^ 259 

veiled a bust of the popular physician, in the beau- 
tiful EUzabeth Bard INlemorial Hospital, in San 
Buenaventura, founded by Dr. Bard and his brother. 
Senator Bard, in memory of their mother. 

Dr. Bard held many positions of honor and trust. 
In the early days he was coroner of A^entura county. 
He served as Health Officer of his county, and as 
County Physician and Surgeon for many years and 
as a member of the Board of Pension Examiners. He 
was president of the State Medical Society of Cali- 
fornia, and of the Ventura County JNIedical Society. 
For over ten yearshe was president of the City School 
Board, and he was also president of the Society of 
Pioneers. In the Grand Army of the Republic he 
was always an active, zealous and patriotic comrade. 
His last achievement was the completion of the 
Elizabeth Bard INIemorial Hospital, which was finished 
only a short time before his death, and in which he 
was the first patient. 

Dr. Bard was married October 25, 1871, to Clara 
Winter Gerberding, daughter of Christian Otto and 
Mary J. (Hempson) Gerberding. She was born Sep- 
tember 5, 1847, and died January 12, 1905. 

Issue; 

1. Mary Blanche Bard, was born at San Buenaventura, 
Cal., August 22, 1872; living at Chambersburg, Pa. 

2. Albert Marius Bard, was born at "Bervlwood," Hueneme, 
Cal., August 4, 1879, and died at Brussels, Belgium, in 1905. 

William Evans Bard, son of John and Mary Poe 
(Evans) Bard, was born in Franklin county. Pa., 
August 13, 1840, and died at Sedalia, Mo., February 



260 THE BARD FAMILY 

14, 1900. He went to Missouri with his parents and 
was active 'in business there all his life. He was mar- 
ried at Booneville, Mo., September 21, 1864, to Sarah 
Elizabeth Talbot. She died August 8, 1881. INIr. 
Bard was married (2), November 10, 1889, to Anna 
I shell. 

Issue by his first wife: 

1. William Evans Bard, was born January 30, 1866. He 
is the head of the W. E. Bard Drug Company, organized in 
1860 at Sedalia, Mo. He was married at I^exington, Mo., No- 
vember 28, 1891, to Mazie McGrew. 

2. Marv Talbot Bard, was born February 8, 1868. She 
was married June 26, 1886, to the Rev, Dewitt Clinton Browne, 
and has Bard, born February 16, 1887, and Virginia, born 
October 1, 1888. 

3. Charles Harlan Bard, was born November 28, 1869. He 
is a jeweler at Sedalia, Mo. He was married September 16, 
1896, to Anna Mertz. 

4. Lillie Moore Bard, was born September 17, 1871. She 
was married November 12, 1896, to Charles Van Antwerp. 

5. Levi Bard, was l)orn December 24, 1873. He is a com- 
mission merchant at Kansas Citv, Mo. He was married Janu- 
ary 5, 1899, to Mary West. 

6. Frances Elizabeth Bard, was born February 26, 1876. 
She was married June 1, 1898, to Harry E. Hyatt, of Kirk- 
wood, Mo., and has one son, Harry Harding. 

Issue by his second wife: 

1. Mildred Gentry Bard, was born December 11, 1890. 

Ellen Jane Bard, daughter of John and Mary Poe 
(Evans) Bard, was born at Winchester, 111,, Decem- 
ber 15, 1846. She was married JNIay 4, 1869, to Arthur 
Paine JNIorey, a native of Strafford, Vt., who settled 
at Sedalia, Mo. 



BARDS OF "CARROLLS DELIGHT ^^ 261 

Issue : 

1. Richard Morey, was born February 16, 1870. He is a 
graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a 
civil engineer and manager of the Morey Engineering and Con- 
structing Company, of St. Louis. He was married at Sedalia, 
September 16, 1898, to Mary Goodman Mackey, and has one 
son, Richard, born May 8, 1904. 

2. Walter Morey, was born August 14, 1873, and is a 
farmer in Pettis county. Mo. He was married March 28, 1900, 
to Carrie Scott, and has one child, Arthur Paine, born March 
29, 1901. 

3. Laura Cahna Morey, was born August 28, 1876. 

4. Jennie Jasper Morey, was born July 2, 1884. 

Martha Belle JNlcKinnie, daughter of Richard 
Bard and Lydia (Sleigle) JNlcKinnie, was married to 
Daniel Haden Shields, son of George and Hannah 
(Spence) Shields. She was his second wife. Mr. 
Shields was born in 1835. He lives near Loveland, O. 

Issue : 

1. Curtis E. Shields, was born July 30, 1873, and was 
graduated at the LTniversity of Wooster in 1895. He was 
principal of the Spencer, O., High School for one year, and in- 
structor in mathematics in the College of Montana, at Deer 
Lodge, for one year. He was graduated in divinity at the Lane 
Theological Seminary in 1900, and became pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church at Amanda, O. He is now at Hilo, Hawaii. 
He was married August 21, 1900, to Helen C. Mar Gregor, of 
Wooster, O., and has a daughter, Mary Belle, born December 
23, 1901. 

2. Nellie Bard Shields. 

James INIcKinnie Turner, son of James and Mar- 
garet (McKinnie) Turner, was born in AVashington 



262 THE BARD FAMILY 

county, Pa., December 23, 1829. He operates a coal 
mine on his ferm near Blairsville, Indiana county, 
Pa., and is vice-president of the First National Bank 
of Blairsville. He is a ruling elder of the Blairsville 
Presbyterian Church. Mr. Turner was married (1), 
April 4, 1856, to INI. C. Lintner. She was born Sep- 
tember 1, 1836, and died October 31, 1880. He was 
married (2), September 27, 1881, to Mrs. Nannie J. 
Thompson. She died April 9, 1900. 

Issue by his first wife : 

1. William Lintner Turner, was born October 23, 1857. 

2. lola Turner, was born April 4, 1860, and died Decem- 
ber 27, 1881. 

3. Ida May Turner, was boni August 27, 1861. 

4. Clara Turner, married A. C. Collins. 

5. Margaretta L. Turner, was born May 25. 1868. 



DESCENDANTS OF WIT.LIAM BARD 

I 

^^^ILLIAM BARD, second son of Archibald 
^ * Beard, or Bard, was born June 7, 1738, and 
died at Bardstown, Ky., July 31, 1802. He was 
reared in Hamiltonban township, York, now Adams 
county, Pa. By deed, dated April 2, 1761, his father 
conveyed to him a tract of land in "Carroll's Delight," 
which was surveyed to Robert McPherson, October 
7, 1765. Another conveyance from Archibald to 
William, dated November 20, 1764, was for a tract 
of 74 acres of land in Antrim, now Quincy township, 
Franklin county, near the Seventh Day Baptist 
plantation, known as the Nunnery. AA^illiam also 
owned a tract outside of Carroll's Delight, which he 
sold to the Rev. John Mc Knight and Ebenezer Fin- 
ley, and removed to the Cumberland ^^alley. The 
Quincy tract, which Archibald Bard obtained on a 
Proprietary warrant, was conveyed by William Bard, 
of Cumberland county, to Richard Bard, of York 
county, December 21, 1767. After this sale he went 
to western Pennsylvania, and finally settled in Ken- 
tucky. 

According to the tradition of the Bard family, of 
Bardstown, William Bard first visited Kentucky in 
1768. The story is that salt being scarce at Pittsburgh, 
he proposed to three other men. Brown, Evans and 
Doe, to go down the Ohio river, on a flat-boat, to the 

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264 THE BARD FAMILY 

salt licks of Kentucky. Doe's wife went with them 
to cook for them. They landed near the site of 
I^oiiisville, and tlien went to Drennon's creek, twelve 
miles distant, where they built a cabin preparatory to 
beginnintJ' tlie manufacture of salt. The Does had 
with them an infant six months old. The party had 
not been many days at the salt licks when they were 
attacked by a band of Indians. Doe and his wife 
were both killed and Brown was severely wounded. 
Bard killed one Indian with his own gun, and with 
the gun of the dead man he shot another. These 
fatalities had the effect of intimidating the Indians, 
and they retired, leaving JNIr. Bard with the wounded 
man and the helpless babe on his hands. He succored 
the child by chewing bread, that it might have 
sustenance. In the meantime, Evans made his way to 
the river in search of assistance. At midnight of the 
following night, the wounded man died. Bard then 
barred up the cabin and taking the child in his arms 
followed after Evans. He had gone only three miles 
when he was attacked by wohes. He escaped them 
by climbing a tree, where lie remained until daylight. 
Resuming his journey, he "soon afterward met JMr. 
Evans with a company of men coming to his rescue." 
The reality of the rescuing party is taken for granted 
in the tradition, but it is not easily explained, as this 
was a year before Boone and his companions had 
made their way from the Yadkin, and before any per- 
manent settlements had been made in Kentucky. 

The Bardstown tradition further asserts that JMr. 
Bard and JMr. Evans returned to their homes in A ir- 
ginia, taking the little girl with them to its relatives ; 



BARDS OF "CARROLKS DELIGHT" 265 

that later AVilliam Bard and his brother, Richard, went 
to Kentucky and located at Danville; that Richard 
built a cabin that entitled him to a thousand acres 
of land, but afterward returned to Pennsylvania ; and 
that William settled where Bardstown now stands. 
There is no tradition among the descendants of 
Richard Bard in regard to this early visit to Ken- 
tucky, but land entries copied by Colonel Durrett, 
of Louisville, and deeds and other instruments of 
writing on record, at Bardstown, Nelson county, 
show his ownership of land adjacent to Bardstown, 
1780-88, 

When William Bard went to Kentucky to settle, 
or soon afterward, he built a cabin about four miles 
north of Bardstown and acquired a large tract of land 
on Buffalo creek. A part of this land remained in 
the possession of some of his descendants until within 
a few years. There is a family burying ground on 
the old Bard homestead in which four generations of 
the Bards are buried. William Bard and his son, 
James, were both buried there, but there is no stone 
to mark the place of sepulture of the pioneer. 

The town of Bardstown was laid out by William 
Bard on lands of David Bard. It was named after 
the latter. The following announcement taken from 
the records of the city of Bardstown, originally called 
Salem, shows the initial steps toward the erection of 
Nelson county and the creation of Bardstown as the 
county seat: 

Whereas it appears to many of the inhabitants that 
Jefferson county recjuires to be divided, and the new 
town of Salem central for a County Town. Therefore. 



266 THE BARD FAMILY 

I propose the following encouragement for settling it, 
viz. : Inlots containing one-quarter of an acre with an 
outlot containing three acres given free, only a quit- 
rent of two silver dollars per year, or the value thereof 
in wheat to the Proprietor thereof — a good sufficient 
title shall be given on demand after David Bard obtains 
his preemption deed for the same. The whole shall be 
clear of rent during the disturbance by the present war 
in these parts; and until the outlots can be properly 
laid off after the said war. People may clear and occupy 
as much adjacent land as is necessary for the support of 
their families, and those getting by lottery the improved 
lands shall pay the value of the improvements to him 
that made it. Settlers on these inlots who build a house 
sixteen feet square and clear off the underbrush shall be 
deemed to have a right to these lots. 

February 11, 1782. Wm. Baud. 

Mr. Bard was a surveyor and made the first map 
of Louisville in 1770, The orioinal is in the posses- 
sion of Col. R. T. Durrett, of Louisville. This map 
shows that the town lots were disposed of by chance 
April 24, 1779 — it also contains the initials of those 
who drew the lots, and shows the position of Bear- 
grass creek, which Colby's map, the one officially 
adopted, does not. He drew Lot No. 21, afterward 
No. 92. His land entries according to Col. Durrett's 
record were June 19, 1780, 200 acres as assignee of 
Samuel Shelton on the south side of Salt river, 20 
miles above Frowman's Station, to include an im- 
provement opposite to a riffle in the river, and a 
spring near a tree marked W. B. ; and June 23, 1781, 
on preemption warrant No. 825, for 1,000 acres on 
Buffalo creek. 



BARDS OF "CARROLCS DELIGHT" 267 

Mr. Bard was married in 1779, to Mary Kincaid 
Braxdale, daughter of Joseph Kincaid, and widow of 
John Braxdale, killed by the Indians. She was born 
in Virginia, October 12, 1755, and died at Bardstown, 
Ky., November 10, 1825. 

Issue : 

1. James Bard, of whom presently. 

2. David Bard, of whom presently. 

3. Ebenezer Bard, of whom presently. 

4. WilHam Bard, of whom presently. 

5. Isaac Bard, of whom presently. 

Mrs. Bard was a sister of Capt. Joseph Kincaid, who 
was killed at the battle of Blue Lick. The Kincaid 
family came to America from Sterlingshire, Scotland, 
and settled in the Cumberland Valley, in Pennsylva- 
nia, before going to Virginia and Kentucky. John Kin- 
caid was a taxable in Middleton township, Cumberland 
county. Pa., in 1751. 

John and Mary Kincaid Braxdale had two children — a 
son, John Basil Braxdale, and a daughter, Sallie Brax- 
dale. Mary Bard left her inheritance in Madison county, 
Ky., on which her father lived and died, to her son 
Isaac Bard. 



II 



TAMES BARD, son of William and Mary (Kin- 
*^ caid) Bard, was born at Bardstown, Ivy., Febru- 
ary 17, 1782, and died May 13, 1846. He served 
with a troop of horse raised in Nelson county, Ky., in 
the War of 1812. His life was spent on the old Bard 
homestead on Buffalo creek, near Bardstown, and he 
was buried in the family grav' eyard on the plantation. 
Mr. Bard was married May 27, 1805, to JNIartha 
Adams. She was born in 1782 and died January 8, 
1864. They had no children. 

David Bard, son of ^^^illiam and IVlary (Kincaid) 
Bard, was born at Bardstown, Ky., April, 1785, and 
died in 1818. He inherited a part of the old Bard 
homestead on Buffalo creek. He was married (1), 
October 10, 1810, to Elizabeth Waters, daughter of 
William AVaters, of Bullitt county, Ky. She died 
January 17, 1816. The name of his second wife was 
]\Iargaret. 

Issue by his first wife: 

1. William Waters Bard, of whom presently. 

2. Mary E. Bard, married Jonathan Rogers, of whom 
presently. 

Issue by his second wife: 

1. Martha A. Bard, married Benjamin Kurtz. 

Ebenezer Bard, son of William and Mary (Kin- 
caid) Bard, was born at Bardstown, Ky., October, 
1787, and was buried in the old Presbyterian grave- 



BAUDS OF "CARROLKS DELIGHT" 269 

yard near Bardstowii, now in a state of great neglect. 
The name of his wife was Nancy. 

Issue : 

1. Joseph Bard. 

2. Ebenezer Bard, was born in 1817, and died September 
22, 1829. 

3. WiUiani Henry Bard, was born November, 1824, and 
died December 29, 1824. 

4. Sarah Rogers Bard, was born November, 182.5, and died 
April 1, 1829. 

5. Elizabeth Susan Bard, was born March, 1829, and died 
June 5, 1829. 

6. Cynthia A. Bard. 

William Bard, son of AVilliam and Mary (Kin- 
caid) Bard, was born at Bardstown, Ky., July, 1790, 
and died at Osceola, Ark. He was engaged exten- 
sively in business, and he was collector of the Tenth 
Collection District of Kentucky. In 1819 he con- 
veyed all his property, including the house in which 
he lived in Bardstown, to Philip Read and James 
and Ebenezer Bard. Read was his endorser on a note 
for $3,750, in the Springfield Branch Bank, James 
Bard was the surety on his official bond, and James 
and Ebenezer were security on other instruments. 
He afterward removed to Osceola, Ark., where he 
remained until his death. He was married to JNIar- 
garet Beeler, daughter of Christopher Beeler. 

Isaac Bard, son of William and Mary (Kincaid) 
Bard, was born at Bardstown, Ky., January 13, 1797, 
and died near Greenville, Ky., June 29, 1878. He 
was graduated at Union College, N. Y., in 1821, but 
he had entered the Theological Seminary, at Prince- 



270 THE BARD FAMILY 

ton, in 1817, and was licensed by the New Bruns- 
wick Presbytery in 1820. He was, for ten years, pas- 
tor of the Greenville and JNIt. Pleasant Presbyterian 
churches, 1823-33, and then retired to his farm, near 
Greenville, Muhlenberg county, Ky., where the rest 
of his life was spent. His mother left to him the 
property, in JNIadison county, Ky., that she inherited 
from her father. JNIr. Bard was married to Matilda 
M. Moore. 

Issue : 

1. Henry Clay Bard, of whom presently. 

2. Luther Bard, 

3. Lafayette Bard. 

4. Verona Bard, married Carroll Larkins. 

5. Martha Bard, married Hollowell. 



Ill 



X^ILLIAJM WATERS BARD, son of David 
^ * and Elizabeth (Waters) Bard, was born at 
Bardstown, Ky., in 1814, and died October 21, 1885. 
He was twice married. His first wife was Adeline 
M. demons, who was born in 1814, and died in 1854. 
He was married secondly to Mattie Davis Jones, a 
widow. 

Issue by his first wife: 

1. James H. Bard, 

2. Amantha S. Bard, was born in 1839, and died in 1848. 
Issue by his second wife: 

1. Wilham Bard. 

2. Chnton Bard. 

3. Charles Bard. 

4. Samuel Bard, died August, 1899. 

Mary E. Bard, daughter of David and Elizabeth 
( Waters )JBard, was born at Bardstown, Ky., Septem- 
ber 4, 1811, and died October 16, 1898. She was 
married INIay 16, 1833, to Jonathan Rogers, son of 
James Rogers, of Bardstown, Ky. He was born at 
Bardstown, jKy., April 8, 1808, and died November 
9, 1868. 

Issue : 

1. David James Rogers. I 

2. Charles Bard Rogers. 

3. Harrison Rogers, was born March 13, 1841, and died 
March 16, 1842. 

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272 THE BARD FAMILY 

4. Antoinette Rogers, was born September 2, 1843, and 
died July 4, 1844. 

5. Sarah Ellen Rogers, married (1) William T. Sansbury, 
and (2) William Irving Abell. 

6. John Henry Rogers. 

7. Thompson Rogers. 

8. William Richard Rogers. 

9. Jonathan Rogers. 

10. Edwin Cosby Rogers. 

11. Edgar B. Rogers, was born March 4, 1854, and died 
March 8, 1854. 

James Rogers, the father of Jonathan Rogers, was born 
October, 1774, and died at Bardstown, Ky., March 13, 
1843. 

Henry Clay Bard, son of Rev. Isaac and ^latilda 
M. (JNIoore) Bard, was born in 1828, and died August 
21, 1900. He was married to Albina Frances Ber- 
nard, of Baton Rouge, La. 

Issue : 

1. Lillian Bard, married to Boyd Porter, a merchant at 
Weathersfield, Texas. 



DESCENDANTS OF DAVID BARD 

I 

~p|AVID BARD, soil of Archibald Beard, or 
-■-^ Bard, was born on Carroll's Delight, Adams 
county, Pa., in 1744, and died at Alexandria, Hunt- 
ingdon county, Pa., March 12, 1815, He was gradu- 
ated at Princeton College, in 1773. He was licensed 
by the Presbytery of Donegal, probably in the spring 
of the year 1777, as he was, in the fall of that year, 
reported by the Presbytery to Synod, as a licen- 
tiate. At the meeting of the Presbytery, held April 
17, 1778, he announced his intention of taking a 
chaplaincy in the army, but in June following de- 
clared his change of mind. In October, of 1778, he 
received, through the Presbytery, a call to the Great 
Cove, in ^"irginia, and was ordained, June 16, 1779, 
with a view to this field, as we suppose. He supplied 
this congregation for one year, when he received and 
accepted a call to the united congregations of Kit- 
tochtin and Gum Spring, also in \^irginia. The salary 
promised was to be paid, at least in part, in wheat, rye 
and corn. In 1782 he applied to be released from this 
charge. From this time until 1786, it is not known 
how he was employed, but it is probable that he was 
in Kentucky, as in that year he is mentioned in the 
proposals of his brother William Bard for laying out 
the town of Bardstown, of the site of which he had 
obtained a preemption. In 1786, he received a call 



274 THE BARD FAMILY 

to Bedford, Pa., where he remained until 1789. It 
was evidently Mr. Bard's intention to remain at Bed- 
ford, for two or three years before his removal he 
purchased two outlots of the town of Bedford, in the 
Manor of Bedford, from John Penn and John Penn, 
Jr., of the city of Philadelphia. The lots were Nos. 
22 and 23, and the consideration was ^42, Pennsyl- 
vania currency. The deed was dated September 12, 
1786. In 1789, he made application to the Presby- 
tery of Carlisle, to be dismissed to the Presbytery of 
Transylvania, Kentucky, but in June, 1790, he re- 
turned the certificate of dismission, and at the same 
time accepted a call to Frankstown congregation, and 
as stated supply of Sinking A^alley. In 1788, before 
leaving Bedford, he was tlie owner of lot 10, in Hol- 
lidaysburg. The congregations of Williamsport, Md., 
and Falling AVaters, \ a., called him in 1791, but he 
did not accept. In 1799, after serving the congrega 
tion at Frankstown for ten years, the relation was 
dissolved, at his own request, with the reluctant con- 
sent of his congregation. He seems, however, to have 
retained the charge at Sinking A^alley. 

The Rev. Dr. D. X. Junkin, in a historical dis- 
course delivered at Hollidaysburg, March 25, 1860, 
said he was elected to Congress the next year after 
his arrival, the first Congress under the Constitution, 
and was elected continuously for twenty-two years. 
This is evidently a mistake. The Rev. JNIr. Bard was 
first elected to Congress in 1794, and he was re- 
elected in 1796, serving two terms, 1795-99. The 
Representatives in the First Congress, from I'ennsyl- 
vania, were chosen on a general ticket. Among the 



BARDS OF "CARROLL'S DELIGHT" 275 

eight members of the House, 1789-91, only two hved 
west of the Susquehanna, Colonel Tliomas Hartley, 
of York, and Thomas Scott, of Washington county. 
The first apportionment of the state into Congress 
districts was under an Act of the Legislature, ap- 
proved JNIarch 16, 1791. Under this apportionment, 
the Sixth District, which comprised the counties of 
Bedford, Northumberland, Franklin, Huntingdon 
and Mifflin, was represented in the Second and Third 
Congresses, 1791-95, by Andrew Gregg. A second 
apportionment quickly followed the first, under an 
Act of the Legislature, passed April 22, 1794. Un- 
der this apportionment, the Tenth district comprised 
the counties of Bedford, Franklin and Huntingdon. 
This district was represented in the Fourth and Fifth 
Congresses, 1795-99, by the Rev. David Bard, of 
Sinking Aalley, and in the Sixth and Seventh Con- 
gresses, 1799-1803, by Henry Woods, of Bedford. 
In 1802, the state was again redistricted, the counties 
of Cumberland, Himtingdon, Dauphin and JMifflin 
becoming the Fourth District, with two representa- 
tives, of whom Mr. Bard was one, 1803-13. Under 
the apportionment of 1812, the counties of Hunting- 
don, Mifflin, Centre, Clearfield and McKean became 
the Ninth District, which jNIr. Bard represented for 
one term, 1813-15. 

There seems to have been some dispute over the 
regularity of INIr. Bard's election to the Fourth Con- 
gress. His credentials were referred to the Committee 
of Elections, which reported March 18, 1796. The 
general election law prescribed that one of the judges 
of each of the counties composing the district should 



276 THE BARD FAMILY 

meet at n place called the Burnt Cabins, in the 
county of Bedford, to estimate the vote. It was 
shown that there was some delay in counting)- the 
election returns, as directed by the law, but the 
judges finally met at the Burnt Cabins, and counted 
the votes. According to their report, David Baird 
received 1,806 votes, James McClain, 1,090 votes, and 
James Chambers, 519 votes. The committee re- 
ported that the elections appeared to ha\'e been reg- 
ularly held in the several counties comprising the 
district, and JNIr. Bard was gi\'en his seat. It will be 
observed that in the report of the committee the 
name of David Bard was spelled Baird, and that of 
James JNIcLene, McClain. James jNld^ene and James 
Chambers were both of Franklin county. 

In the annals of Congress INIr. Bard is shown to 
have addressed the House, February 14, 1804, on the 
question of the importation of slaves into the United 
States. The discussion was on a motion offered by 
JNIr. Bard whicli was taken into consideration in com- 
mittee of the whole: 

Resolved, That a tax of ten dollars be imposed on 
every slave imported into any part of the United 
States. (On motion of Mr. Jackson, it was agreed to 
add after the words " United States" "or their terri- 
tories.") 

Mr. Bard: . . . As to the fonstitutionality of the meas- 
ure I believe there can l)e but one opinion. It is pretty 
well understood that the l^nion of the States was a 
matter of compromise ; and indeed the languagje of the 
Constitution suo-gests the idea that the convention that 
formed that instrument must have had the emancipa- 



BARDS OF "CARROLi;S DP^LIGHT" 277 

tion of slaves under their consideration; that they had 
achieved hberty and that their object was to transmit 
it to posterity; and we cannot permit ourselves to sup- 
pose that men whose minds were so enriched with liberal 
sentiments and who had so often reiterated the sacred 
truth "that all men were born ecjually free" — I say we 
cannot suppose that they would consider slavery to be 
a subject unworthy their discussion. And it appears to 
be equally suggested that the convention were not all 
agreed to an absolute prohibition of the slave trade, 
but yielded so far that a duty or tax might be imposed 
on the future importation of that description of people. 
The question then is only on the policy of laying the 
tax; and it appears that there can be no doubt on this 
question . . . and if my information is correct, a slave 
will bring four hundred dollars, the tax is but 2i per 
cent which is in many degrees lower than any other im- 
ported article pays. . . . However, if any of the States 
engage in the trade, the tax will have two effects; it 
will add something to the revenue and it will show to 
the world that the general government are opposed to 
slavery and are willing to improve their power so far as 
it will go for preventing it. Both these ends are valu- 
able; but I deem the latter to be the more important, 
for we owe it indispensably to ourselves and to the 
world whose eyes are on this government to maintain 
its Republican character. Everything compared to a 
ffood name is "trash ;" and it rests with us whether we 
will preserve or destroy it. If our government will 
respect power only, and justify whatever it may be able 
to do, then will our hands be against every man, and 
every man's hand against us; and Americans will become 
the scorn of mankind. On what principles, whether 
moral or political, I do not know, but so it was, that 



278 THE BARD FAMILY 

about the close of the Revohitionarv War, the Quaker 
Society in South Carohna Ijrought the slave trade, or 
perhaps slavery itself, under their serious consideration 
and decreed it to he unjustifiable. That afterwards, in 
1796 or 1797, they addressed Congress on the subject. 
. . . Some years ao'o the States, even those in which 
slaves abound most, loudly exclaimed against the furthei- 
importation of that class of people, and by their laws pro- 
hibited their traffic. ... In 1802 Congress stretched 
out her arm to aid the State governments against the 
evil it much deprecated, and passed a law inflicting fines 
and forfeitures on every man who should be found 
importing slaves into the United States. . . . To im- 
port slaves is to import enemies into (mr country, it is to 
import men who must be oiu- natural enemies, if such 
there can be. . . . Gentlemen tell us, although I can 
hardly think them serious, that the people of this class 
can never systematize a rebellion. . . . The rigor of 
the law and the importation of the slaves will nuitually 
increase each other, imtil the artifices of the one are 
exhausted, and until on the other hand human natin-e 
sinks under its wrongs or obtains the restoration of its 
rights. 

The negroes . . . are present on numerous occasions 
when the conversation turns on political subjects. . . . 
They will some day, especially if their importation con- 
tinues, produce a disturbance that may not be easily 
quieted or kindle a flame that ma} not be readily 
extinguished. . . . European powers have armed the 
Indians against us, and why may they not arm the 
negroes. 

The subject was debated at lengtli and also on the 
following day the House had a long and heated con- 
test over the resolution, an attempt being made to 



BARDS OF " CARROLL S DELIGHT" 279 

postpone a consideration of tlie matter until the first 
JMonday in JNIay. The motion to postpone was de- 
feated — yeas 54, nays 62, whereupon a vote on the 
resolution was had, which resulted in its carrying, 
yeas 71. In Congress JMr. Bard nexer aspired to be 
an orator, and his only noteworthy speech in the 
House during his long service was that directed 
against the slave trade. 

If Dr. Junkin was correct in saying that INIr. Bard 
was first elected a member of Congress the next year 
after his arrival at HoUidaysburg, he must have set- 
tled at that place in 1793. It is more likely, how- 
ever, that he went there, or to Frankstown, in the 
year that he became a lot owner, 1788, or soon after,- 
ward, when it is said he organized the Presbyterian 
congregation at HoUidaysburg and began preaching 
there and at Sinking Valley and A^^'illiamsburg. After 
his election to Congress in 1802, he retained his pas- 
torates, which did not then include either Frankstown 
or HoUidaysburg, serving in the National Legislature 
in the winter months, and preaching in the summer. 
While disclaiming any knowledge of the effect of his 
political life upon his spirituality and success as a min- 
ister, one of his successors in the Bedford congregation, 
the Rev. Robert F. Sample, expressed regret that Mr. 
Bard did not devote all his time to the work of the 
ministry, for which he was so specially adapted. It is 
said that as a minister he was possessed of popular 
talents and was acceptable as a preacher where^'er he 
was heard. As his salary from the tliree Blair county 
congregations was only .$100 per annum, it can 
scarcely be claimed that he was in any way derelict 



280 THE BARD FAMILY 

in his duty in preaching to his people only in the 
summer months. One thing appears from the Pres- 
bytery's records, that no member of the Presbytery 
of Huntingdon was so frequently absent from the 
meetings of church courts. Indeed, at one time, he 
was cited before the Presbytery to answer for frequent 
and continued absences. He satisfied Presbytery by 
the reasons which he gave, and no doubt, among 
these reasons was the necessity of attending the ses- 
sions of Congress. It is probable that for a number 
of years he made his home at Frankstown, but at the 
time of his death he was living in Sinking \^alley, 
where he owned a fine farm. 

Mr. Bard always evinced a strong interest in the 
ownership of the soil. Besides the lots that he pur- 
chased in Bedford and Hollidaysburg, and his farm 
in Sinking ^^alley, he preempted lands in Kentucky 
with his brothers, Richard and AA''illiam, and obtained 
a patent for the site of Bardstown. 

After the adjournment of Congress, at the expira- 
tion of his last term, Mr. Bard started to return to 
his home, and passed through Huntingdon on the 
Thursday preceding his death, apparently in good 
health. When he reached the house of his son-in- 
law. Dr. John E. Buchanan, at Alexandria, he was 
found to be very ill. He arrived at Dr. Buchanan's 
house late at night. A messenger was at once dis- 
patched for his wife. She reached his bedside on the 
following morning, but he was then unable to speak 
and died a few hours later. He was buried in the 
cemetery at Arch Spring, in Sinking Valley, where 
his wife also rests by his side. 



BARDS OF "CARROLUS DELIGHT" 281 

INIr. Bard was married to Elizabeth Diemer, prob- 
ably a native of Leesburg, Va. She was born in 
1752, and died in 1824. 

Issue : 

1 . Richard Bard, of whom presently. 

2. Diemer Bard, of whom presently. 

3. Mary Bard, married Thomas Stewart, of whom presently. 

4. Rachel Bard, married Dr. John E. Buchanan, of whom 
presently. 

5. Catharine Bard, married John Wilson, of whom presently. 

6. Sarah Bard, died unmarried, in 1829. 



R 



II 

ICHARD BARD, son of Rev. David and 
Elizabeth (Diemer) Bard, was bom at Frederick, 
Md., in 1777, and died at I.e Claire, Iowa, January 
16, 1859. He settled in Allegheny township, Hunt- 
ingdon, now Blair county. Pa., after his marriage. He 
was a justice of the peace in 1820, and served as one 
of the township auditors, 1825-26. Later he removed 
to Iowa, and settled at Le Claire. Mr. Bard was 
married at JNIercersburg, Pa., June 3, 1806, to his 
cousin once removed, Elizabeth Bard Dunlap, daugh- 
ter of James and INIary (Bard) Dunlap. She was 
born in 1783, and died February 14, 1866. 

Issue : 

1. James Bard, went west as a young man. 

2. David Bard, died unmarried at Baltimore. 

3. Richard Bard, drowned, aged three years. 

4. William Bard, of whom presently. 

5. Harrison Bard, of whom presently. 

6. Richard Bard, of whom presently. 

7. John D. Bard, killed in California in the early 'fifties. 

8. Mary Bard, died at I.e Claire, Iowa. She married John 
McDowell; they had issue. 

9. Eliza Jean Bard, married Stewart M. Campbell, of whom 

presently. 

10. Catharine Poe Bard, was born November 15, 1819, and 
lives at Davenport, Iowa. 

Mary Bard Dunlap, the mother of Elizabeth Bard 
Dunlap, was a daughter of Richard Bard, Esq., the 
eldest brother of the Rev. David Bard. See "Decend- 
ants of Richard Bard." 

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BARDS OF "CARROLUS DELIGHT" 283 

Dienier Bard, son of Rev. David and Elizabeth 
(Diemer) Bard, li^'ed in Allegheny township, Hunt- 
ingdon, now Blair county, Pa., of which he Mas con- 
stable in 1813. It was in a time when the office of 
constable was, in a measure, obligatory, and a fine 
of forty dollars was frequently imposed for refusal to 
serve. In 1812, George Faulkner was fined for refus- 
ing to accept the office in Allegheny township, and 
William Simonton was next fined for refusal in 1816. 
JNIr. Bard removed to Indiana county, as is shown by 
the fact that he was a witness to the will of Margaret 
Findley, of Wheatfield township, in 1819. Later he 
went to Missouri or Louisiana. He was married 
March 9, 1811, to Fanny Lowrey, daughter of 
I^azarus and (Holliday) Lowrey, of Franks- 
town township, Blair county, Pa. 

Issue : 

1. Lowrey Bard. 

Lazarus Lowrey was a grandson of Lazarus Lowrey, the 
Indian trader, of Donegal, Lancaster county. Pa., and 
a son of either James or Joseph Lowrey, who settled on 
the Juniata in 1759. He went to the Holliday settle- 
ment, now Hollidaysburg, before the Revolution, where 
he bought a part of the Adam Holliday tract. He was 
enffaijed in mercantile business in Frankstown in 1790; 
and in 1800 he owned a grist mill and saw mill. He 
filled all the offices of Frankstown township, being con- 
stable in 1790, overseer of the poor in 1791, and 
supervisor in 1795. 

Mary Bard, daughter of Rev. David and Eliza- 
beth (Diemer) Bard, was born in 1780, and died at 
New Castle, Pa., aged more than ninety years. She 



284 THE BARD FAMILY 

was married March 20, 1817, to Thomas Stewart, son 
of Robert and Margaret (Edie) Stewart, of Sinking 
Valley. He removed to JNlercer county. Pa., and 
later to the neighborhood of Steubenville, O. 

Issue : 

1. David Bard Stewart, died unmarried, at Youngstown, 
Ohio. 

2. Margaret Edie Stewart, died unmarried. 

3. Eliza Stewart, married David Gill ; they had no children. 

4. Rachel Ann Stewart, died unmarried. 

It is believed that Robert Stewart, the father of Thomas, 
was a grandson of David Stewart, an earlv settler on 
Marsh Creek, in what is now Adams county. Pa., who 
died in 1741, and was buried in the Lower Marsh 
Creek Presbyterian graveyard. Robert Stewart was 
born in 1749, and died in 1828. He emigrated from 
Adams county, Pa., to Tyrone township, Blair county, 
after the Revolution, and became the owner of 345 acres 
of land, in Sinking Valley, in 1794. This large tract was 
afterward divided into two farms. On the homestead 
farm a substantial stone mansion was built in 1801, 
that is still standing. Mr. Stewart was married to 
Margaret Edie, who died in 1841. Their children were: 
Nancy, married James Morrow ; Margaret, married 
James Wilson, with whom she removed to Clarion 
county ; Ann, married Samuel Russell ; Sarah, married 
James Mitchell ; Mary, married William McCormick ; 
Thomas, James, Samuel and Robert. 
Nancy Stewart, daughter of Robert and Margaret 
(Edie) Stewart, was born in 1787, and died in 1870. 
Her husband, James Morrow, son of Robert Morrow, 
of Sinking Valley, was born in 1785, and died in 184L 
Their children were Robert, James, John, William,, 



BARDS OF "CARROLL'S DELIGHT". 285 

Rolland, Margaret, married John M. Tussey; Rebecca, 

married Robert Dean; Mary A., married 

Sharer; Sarah, married David P. Tussey; and Nancy, 
married Henry Canan. Ann Stewart, sister of Nancy, 
died about 1849, and her husband, Samuel Russell, in 
1837. Their children were James, Edwin, Samuel, 
Thomas, Margaret, married Armstrong Crawford; 
Elizabeth, married James Templeton; Jane, married 
John Gourley; and Nancy (Mrs. McNiel). 
James Stewart, son of Robert and Margaret (Edie) 
Stewart, was born in 1786, and died April 26, 1851. 
By his first marriage he had a son, James E. Stewart, 
who was born in 1830. Robert Stewart, brother of 
James, was married February 25, 1827, to Nancy 
Hagertv. Their children were Margaret, Mary Jane, 
Sarah Ann, Samuel Edie, Louisa, Ellen, Elizabeth, and 
John. 

Rachel Bard, daughter of Rev. David and Eliza- 
beth (Diemer) Bard, was married to John E. Bu- 
chanan, son of (xcorge Buchanan, of Alexandria, 
Huntingdon comity. Pa. He died October 23, 1824. 
He was a physician. He was practicing his profession 
in Frankstown township and village, now in Blair 
county, Pa., in 1810, but soon afterward he returned 
to Alexandria, his native town, where he continued 
in practice until his death. 

Issue : 

1. Anna Buchanan. 

2. Eliza Buchanan. 

3. John Buchanan, of whom presently. 

4. David Buchanan. 

5. Mary Buchanan. 

6. Sarah Buchanan. 



286 THE BARD FAMILY 

7. Rachel Buchanan. 

8. Catharine Buclianan. 

Dr, Buchanan's father, George Buchanan, was an early 
settler in Porter township, Huntingdon county. Pa, 
He had two sons, John E. and Matthew. Matthew 
Buchanan was a silversmith, at Alexandria, Pa. He 
was married November 3, 1808, to Susan Moore. 

Catharine Bard, daughter of Hex. David and 
EHzabeth (Dienier) Bard, was married June 11, 1817, 
to Jolni Wilson, a son of Thomas Wilson, of Sinking 
Valley, Blair county, Pa. He was a tanner, and con- 
ducted a tannery at Laurelville, near Tyrone, Pa., 
for more than a quarter of a century, 1815-42. He 
was postmaster of Sinking ^"alley, and he was a 
member of the first Board of School Directors, of 
Tyrone township, chosen in 188.5. In 1842, he sold 
his tannery to Henry JNIcJMullen, and removed to 
Mercer county. 

Thomas Wilson, who was born in 1763, and died in 
1844, went from Adams county, Pa., to Sinking Valley, 
among the early settlers of Tyrone township, Blair 
county. Pa., where he owned 312 acres of land. He 
was a supervisor of roads, of Tyrone township, then in 
Huntingdon county, in 1793. His sons were Charles, 
Thomas, John, James, Robert, and William. 



Ill 

WILLIAM BARD, son of Richard and Eliza- 
beth Bard (Dunlap) Bard, was born at Holh- 
daysburg, Pa., August 25, 1811, and died February 
23, 1890. He settled at Curwensville, Clearfield 
county. Pa., where he died. Mr. Bard was married 
April 23, 1837, to Susan Patton, daughter of John 
and Susanna (Antes) Patton. She was born in 
Centre county, Pa., June 17, 1815, and died Septem- 
ber 15, 1890. 

Issue : 

1. Richard James Bard, was born January 20, 1838, and 
died unmarried, February 26, 1902. He enlisted in Company 
K, 42nd Regiment, "Bucktails," Pennsylvania Volunteers, May 
29, 1861 ; discharged on surgeon's certificate, November 20, 
1861. He went to Bradford, McKean county, Pa., where he 
died. 

2. John Patton Bard, of whom presently. 

3. Maria Jane Bard, was born September 11, 1841, and 
died March 17, 1878. She married Joseph R. Irvin, son of 
Elias and Hannah Irvin; they had no children. 

4. William Irvin Bard, of whom presently. 

5. Mary Frances Bard, was born July 12, 1846, and died 
August 24, 1881. She married Edward Livingstone (deceased), 
son of Daniel; they had no children. 

6. Susanna Bard, was born March 30, 1848, and died at 
Cincinnati, on board the steamboat "Citizen," July 7, 1849. 

7. Westanna Bard, was born June 5, 1852; is unmarried. 

8. Catharine Elizabeth Bard, married Joseph R. Irvin, of 
whom presently. 

(■^287) 



288 THE BARD FAMILY 

9. Honora Foley Bard, married Frank Fowler, of whom 
presently. 

10. Harry Horsey Bard, was born September 14, 1857, 
and died November 8, 1857. 

11. Nannie Beck Bard, married Moses Arthur Norris, of 
whom presently. 

Mrs. Bard's grandfather. Col. John Patton, was born in 
Sligo, Ireland, in 1745, and died in Pennsylvania in 
1804. He was a Revolutionary soldier. He was com- 
missioned major of the 2d battalion, of Colonel Miles' 
Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, March 13, 1776; became 
major of the 9th Regt., Pa. Line, October 25, 1776, 
and colonel of one of the sixteen additional Continental 
Regiments, January 11, 1777. He resigned Februarv 3, 
1778. He became a major-general of the Pennsylvania 
Militia, April 15, 1800. Colonel Patton was married 
to Jane Davis, a sister of Capt. Benjamin and Capt. 
Joseph Davis. She died in 1832. Their children were 
Rachel, William, John, Frances, Benjamin, Joseph, 
Edward, Ann, Jane, Samuel and Ellen. Rachel Patton 
was born May 9, 1779. She married John Ross, a 
Scotchman, who was a lawyer. William Patton was 
born August 8, 1781, and died at Wellsboro, Pa. He 
was married to Henrietta Anthony. Samuel Patton 
was married to M9,rv Harris, daughter of John Harris, 
of Bellefonte. 

Mrs. Bard's father, John Patton, son of' Col. John and 
Jane (Davis) Patton, was born February 8, 1783, and 
died February 2, 1848. He laid out the town of Pat- 
tonville, now Pinegrove, in 1815. He removed to Tioga 
county. Pa., in 1817, of which he was prothonotary, but 
returned to Milesburg in 1825, and settled in Clear- 
field county in 1827, of which he was an associate judge. 
As a young man he served as a lieutenant in the U. S. 



BARDS OF "CARROLUS DELIGHT" 289 

navy under Commodore Decatur. Judge Patton was 
married to Susanna Antes, and had a son John, and a 
daughter Susan (Mrs. Bard). 

Mrs. Bard\s brother, John Patton, was born in Tioga 
county. Pa., January 6, 1823. He was a Representative 
in Congress, 1861-67, and was again elected in 1886. 
He was a delegate to the Republican National Conven- 
tion of 1 860. For many years he was president of the 
National Bank of Curwensville, Pa. Mr. Patton was 
married (1), June 17, 1847, to Catharine M. Cunes, 
daughter of Alexander Cunes, of Hollidaysburg, Pa. 
She died November 28, 1855. He was married (2), 
June 18, 1858, to Honora Jane Foley, daughter of 
William C. Foley. By his first marriage he had three 
sons and one daughter, and by his second marriage five 
sons and three daughters. 

John Patton, son of John and Catharine M. (Cunes) 
Patton, was born at Curwensville, Pa., October 30, 1850, 
and died at Grand Rapids, Mich., May 24, 1907. He 
was graduated at Yale College in 1875, and after a 
course in the Columbia University Law School, he 
entered upon the practice of his profession at Grand 
Rapids, Mich., in 1878. He took high rank in his pro- 
fession, and was United States Senator from Michigan 
at the time of his death. 
Harrison Bard, son of Richard and Elizabeth Bard 
(Dunlap) Bard, was born at Hollidaysburg, Pa., No- 
vember 8, 1813, and died at Bradford, 111., May 24, 
1900. He was married June 30, 1847, to Mary Jane 
Adams, of Kentucky. She was born March 18, 1825, 
and died July 22, 1894. 

Issue : 

1. John Bard, of whom presently. 

2. Sarah Jane Bard, was born February 21, 1854. She 



290 THE BARD FAMILY 

was married December 13, 1874, to James Samuel Chenoweth, 
of Bradford, 111. He was born February 28, 1851. 

8. Richard Bard, was born at Franklin, O., September 12, 
1856, and died in 1900. He served in the civil war. 

4. Douglas Bard, of whom presently. 

Richard Bard, son of Richard and Elizabeth Bard 
(Dunlap) Bard, was born June 5, 1819, and died 
October 12, 1900. He kept a liotel at Le Claire, la., 
where he died. He was married July 8, 1857, to 
Phoebe Livingston, daughter of Hugh and Elizabeth 
(Smith) Livingston. She was born May 17, 1835, and 
died March 21, 1895. 

Issue : 

1. Elizabeth Bard, was born August 7, 1859. She was 
married December 7, 1882, to Walter A. Blair, son of Andrew 
and Margaret (Henry) Blair. He was born November 17, 1856. 
He is a steamboat owner at Davenport, la. Walter and Eliza- 
beth Blair had issue: Paul, born January 6, 1886, died Novem- 
ber 24, 1898; George Walter, born October 7, 1887; Gertrude 
Helen, born December 5, 1891; and Bard Burdeth, born July 
4, 1894. 

2. Adele Douglas Bard, was born January 4, 1862. She 
was married December 7, 1882, to John Laycock, living at 
Denver, Col. 

3. John Livingston Bard, was born December 27, 1864. 
He lives at La Salle, 111. He was married February 19, 1897, 
to Pearl E. Shultz, daughter of John A. and Ella A. Shultz. 
She was born Decembei- 6, 1868. They have issue: John An- 
drew, born Januai-y 23, 1898, and Joseph Richard, born 
September 28; 1900. 

4. Fannie Lee Bard, was born April 8, 1866. She was 
married September 12, 1897, to John Dunlap, son of Joseph 
Irwin and Martha Dunlap. He was born November 15, 1868. 



BARUS OF "CARROLKS DELIGHT" 291 

They have issue- Fannie Louise, born August 20, 1898. (See 
"Descendants of Richard Bard."") 

5. Phoebe Annetta Bard, was born September 30, 1868, 
and died May 24, 1888. 

6. Zilpah Helen Bard, was born April 15, 1871. 

7. Richard Irwin Bard, was born April 21, 1874, and died 
September 9, 1897. 

Eliza Jane Bard, daughter of Richard and Eliza- 
beth Bard (Diinlap) Bard, died September 23, 1854. 
She was married Xoveinber 4, 1838, to Stewart Marks 
Campbell, son of John and Esther (Marks) Camp- 
bell, natives of Ireland. He was born in Armagh, 
Ireland, in 1814, and died in Kansas, July 16, 1883. 
He was brought to Ainerica by his parents when he 
was only four years old, and taken to Clearfield, 
Clearfield county, Pa., where he was educated and 
was living at the time of his marriage. With his 
family he removed to Iowa, landing at Le Claire, 
Scott county, June 6, 1843. He settled on a farm in 
Le Claire township, building a sod house, in which he 
lived for a few years, until he was able to burn brick 
and build a more substantial dwelling. He was an 
officer in the civil war. 

Issue: 

1. (Child), was born at Clearfield, Pa., in 1840, and died 
in infancy. 

2. Esther E. Campbell, was married (1) to Drake, 

and (2) to Francis Murphy, of whom presently. 

3. Mary Catharine Campbell, married John" P. Moore, of 
whom presently. 

4. Martha Jane Campbell, married Thomas Wise, of whom 
presently. 



292 THK HARD TAMILV 

0. David \\i\n\ C\impboll, was horn ,Iuno 1 4'. 1849. and 
.ditxi OctolKM- a, 1S()5. 

(). Harrison Hard C\unj)holl, was horn AjmII '^D. 1S51. Ho 
i*enioved to Kansas. Ho wont out with a party aijjainst a hand 
of Indians that had c-onio t'roni tho Inchan Torritorv ; nothini>; 
was hoard ot" him attorward. 

John Campholl, tho t'athor ot" Stowart M. lanipholl, 
was a nativo ot" Armagh. Iroland. ot' Sootoh oxtrai'tion. 
His wito, Ksthor Marks, was ot" Hno-nonot origin. Hor 
pooplo oamo to Holt'ast, Iroland, t'roni Franoo at the 
tinio ot" tho nuussju'iv of St. Bartholomew. The family 
name was De Marks, hut tho Do was dropped upon tho 
sottlomont in Iroland. .h)hn CamphoU was horn in 
1790. and died at Lo Claire. la. His wife. Esther, died 
April l;i. 1851 . The parents of William t'oily. "Buffalo 
Hill." lived on a neii;hhorin»;- farm in Le Claiiv town- 
ship, and Mrs. Campbell washed and dressed the famous 
:*oout when ho eamo into the worlil. 

.lohn Buchanan, son of Dr. .lohn K. and Kacliel 
(Bard) Buchanan, died in 1847. He. lived in Wash- 
ington township, Indiana comity. I'a.. where he died. 

Issue : 

1. James Huehanan. 

2. John Huehanan. 

3. Joseph Buchanan, married and had a ilaughter, Mary 
Ann. 

■i. .Jane Huehanan. 

5. (Daughter), married Robert Getty Craig. 



IV 



■ OnX I^ATTOX liAIM), son ol Williuin and 
^' Siisun (I^iUori) HnnJ, wus horn ut Curwcnsville, 
Pu., May ao, 18;J9, and died Novcrnhcr 5, I8*):j. He 
enlisted in Cornpany K, 4*2nd He^inient, " liuektails," 
l*cnnsylva,nia N'oluntccrs, May '21), 18f>l. He was 
promoted from seri(eant to first lieutenant, Mantli 17, 
18f).*}, and mustered out, June 11, 18()4. Lieutenant 
H;ird reeeived the rank of l)revet eaptain, March Mi, 
18().5. y\fter the civil war he settled in KIk county, 
J*a., but later removed to Curwcnsville. ('af)tain 
Jiard was married November .*}, 18()7, to Louise K. 
Morgan, daughter of William and Sara Morgan, of 
Clearfield, Pa. 

Lssik;: 

1. Sue I''Jla, lijini, was Ijorn at noiio/.of,, KIk coiiiify, Pa., 
April ar), iMfiS. Sho was inamCfl July 4, 1892, to Charleys 
Kitif^, and liarl nine cliilHrcn : (Charles Frederick, Mary Wini- 
fred, Joscpfi Irvin, Marguerite Louise, Jol)ii I*. Hard, Charles 
A., twill f)rot}ier of John I*. H., Chirence, Sara, and Alice L. 
Bard. 

2. Charles Frederick Hard, was f)orn in (^urwcMisville, I'a., 
September 9, 1870, aiul lives at Hnff'alo, N. Y. lie- was iiiarri(!d 
July 14, 1904, to Ivlna Klare, and has a son, Kicliard Klare, 
bom April 26, 1905. 

a. Alice Louise liar<l, was born at (.'iirwensviile, Pa., 
November 21, 1872, and was married at I*hilips})ur^, l*a., 
September 12, 1905, to Dr. Charles M. Dulin, surgeon, IT. S. 
A. He is serving in the Pliilippines. 

4. Frances (jeiievieve Hard, was boin at ('urwcnsville, Pa., 



294 THE BARD FAMILY 

February 26, 1876, and was married February 25, 1901, to 

John Barnes; they have a son, Joseph Bard, born June 5, 1902. 

5. Richard Morgan Bard, was born February, 26, 1883. 

William Irvin Bard, son of William and Susan 
(Fatten) Bard, was born January 21, 1844. He en- 
listed in Company B, 98tli Regiment, Pennsylvania 
^^olunteers, March 9, 1865. Mr. Bard was married 
January 17, 1872, to Bessie Irvin, daughter of John 
and Eliza (Lee) Irvin, of Curwensville, Pa. 

Issue : 

1. Joseph R. Bard, was born May 9, 1874, and died 
August 15, 1874. 

2. William Walter Bard, was born Novemljer 23, 1878. 

3. Katharine Virginia Bard, was born May, 8, 1880. 

4. James Donald Bard, was born September 22, 1882. 

Catharine Elizabeth Bard, daughter of William 
and Susan (Patton) Bard, was born September 21, 
1852. She was married June 16, 1880, to Joseph R. 
Irvin, son of Ellis and Hannah Irvin, of Lick Run, 
Clearfield county. Pa. She was his second wife, his 
first wife being her sister, Maria Jane Bard. 

Issue : 

1. William Ellis Irvin, was born May 17, 1881, and died 
March 17, 1895. 

2. Joseph Bard Irvin, was born July 13, 1883. 

3. Francis Carroll Irvin, was born August 28, 1885. 

Honora Foley Bard, daughter of William and 
Susan (Patton) Bard, was born March 10, 1855. She 
was married September 24, 1879, to Frank G. 
Fowler, son of James Munroe and Susan E. Fowler, 
of New York. He was born in 1856. 



BARDS OF "CARROLUS DELIGHT" 295 

Issue : 

1. Walter Monroe Fowler, was born at Curwensville, Pa., 
November 15, 1880, and lives at Verona, Pa. He was married 
July 1, 1900, to Celia Adams, and has a daughter, Marv, 
born May 14, 1904. 

2. William Bai'd Fowler, was born February 23, 1882. 

3. Chester Patton Fowler, was born November, 23, 1882. 

4. Frances Fowler, was born May, 1885, and died March 
13, 1888. 

5. Nora Catharine Fowler, was born March 18, 1888. 

6. Joseph Irvin Fowler, was born July 14, 1890. 

7. James Fowler, was born March 7, 1893. 

8. Arthur Norris Fowler, was born March 3, 1895. 

9. Edward Clare Fowler, was born March 16, 1899. 

Nannie Beck Bard, daughter of William and 
Susan (Patton) Bard, was born May 3, 1859. She 
was married June 16, 1884, to Moses Arthur Norris, 
of Woburn, Mass. 

Issue : 

1. Susan Mary Norris, was born September 8, 1885. 

2. Anna Catharine Norris, was born March 27, 1888. 

John Bard, son of Harrison and Mary Jane 
(Adams) Bard, was born June 11, 1848. He was a 
soldier of the civil war and participated in General 
Sherman's "March to the Sea." He enlisted in the 
61st Regiment, Ohio V^olunteers, September 2, 1864, 
and was discharged at Washington, D. C, June 11, 
1865. He lives at Brooklyn, Iowa. Mr. Bard was 
married September 20, 1868, to Ellen J. Harrigan, 
daughter of Thomas and Sarah Ann Harrigan. 

Issue : 

1. Cora E. Bard, was born March 12, 1870, and died 
November 27, 1895. 



296 THE BARD FAMILY 

2. Ralph W. Bard, was born September 27, 1871, and 
died September 20, 1872. 

3. V. R. Bard, was born August 6, 1873, and was married 
February 23, 1893, to Dollie Bolen. 

4. Grace D. Bard, was born October 2, 1875, and was 
married February 24, 1894, to Neil J. Smitli. 

5. Francis Bard, was born October 28, 1877. 

6. Mabel Bard, was born December 24, 1879, and was 
married December 25, 1896, to John Kraft. 

7. Lulu R. Bard, was born February 18, 1881, and was 
married February 18, 1902, to Frederick Groff. 

8. Pansy G. Bard, was born August 17, 1887. 

Douglas Bard, son of Harrison and Mary Jane 
(Adams) Bard, was born at Franklin, AVarren county, 
Ohio, April 15, 1858. He went to Brooklyn, Iowa, 
with his parents, in 1866, and settled at Wolsey, S. 
D., in 1884. Mr. Bard was married March 16, 1884, 
to Emma C. Kreps, of Brooklyn, Iowa. She was 
born in 1855, and was killed by lightning, August 
23, 1905. 

Issue : 

1. Charles D. Bard, was born in 1885. 
"2. Richard R. Bard, was born in 1893. 
3. David A. Bard, was born in 1897. 

Esther E. Campbell, daughter of Stewart M. and 
Eliza Jane (Bard) Campbell, was born at Clear- 
field, Pa., March 13, 1842. She was married (1), to 

Drake, who died in Iowa. She was married 

(2), to Francis Murphy, a native of Nova Scotia, who 
was a ranchman, but is now living in retirement at 
Rock Island, 111. 



BARDS OF "CARROLKS DELIGHT" 297 

Issue, by first marriage: 

1. Francis E. Drake, is a skilled mechanic in U. S. Govern- 
ment employ at Rock Island, 111. He has perfected a number 
of useful inventions. 

Mary Catharine Campbell, daughter of Stewart 
M. and Eliza Jane (Bard) Campbell, was born in the 
sod house near Le Claire, la., July 15, 1843. She was 
married to John P. INIoore. He was born March 29, 
1846, and died May 15, 1897- He was engaged in 
the real estate business at Panama, la. He was of a 
literary and artistic turn of mind, being a regular 
contributor to "The Dollar Newspaper," published at 
Philadelphia, and also to "Godey's Magazine." He 
also took great interest in the study of the violin, and 
had much ability in that direction. 

Issue : 

1. Mabel Pope Moore, was born November 9, 1870, and 
was married April 4, 1894, to Abel Sherman Berry, son of the 
Rev. A. P. and Harriet (Dickinson) Berrv. He was born April 
27, 1866. The elder Berry was a pioneer Baptist minister of 
Kentucky, and a veteran of the Mexican and civil wars, who 
removed to Iowa in the early days, and was recognized as an 
orator of unusual force. The younger Berry was a native of 
Iowa. He studied pharmacy and chemistry, and is recognized 
as one of the leading phainnacists of the state. He lives at 
Panama, la., and takes an active part in local politics. They 
have a son, Bard Sherman, born April 14, 1897. 

2. Eliza Bard Moore, was born November 13, 1873, 
and was married April 9, 1902, to Dr. Charles Frederick Bau- 
meister, son of Max and Antione (Oedl) Baumeister, of German 
birth. He was born October 2, 1872. Mr. Baumeister was 
graduated M. D., in 1894, after which he spent a number of 



298 THE BARD FAMILY 

years in the best schools ot Europe, and is recognized as a man 
of abihty in his profession. They have no children. 

3. P'rederick H. Moore, was born June 1, 1875. He was 
carefully educated along theological lines under the supervision 
of his great aunt, Catharine Poe Bard, but, after completing his 
studies, he decided upon a business career, and fitted himself 
for mercantile pursuits. He is a merchant at Wiota, la., where 
he is prominent in fraternal circles and takes an active interest 
in politics. He was married February 18, 1898, to Edna Percy 
Boyles, daughter of Dr. Boyles. She was born October 22, 
1880. They have two daughters, Catharine Poe, born July 11, 
1899, and Evelyn Mabel, born December 5, 1901. 

4. Mary Moore, was born June 5, 1877, and was married 
August 4, 1904, to Walter E. Frederickson. He was born 
August 22, 1881, and was graduated in pharmacy and chemis- 
try at the Northwestern University, Chicago, in 1902, and is 
engaged in the drug business at Dolliver, la. They have no 
children. 

Martha Jane Campbell, daughter of Stewart M. 
and Eliza Jane (Bard) Campbell, was born near Le 
Claire, la., June 2, 1846, and died July 5, 1873. She 
was married to Thomas Wise, a nephew of Gov. 
Henry A. ^Vise, of \"irginia. Mrs. \^^ise went with 
her husband to Marion Centre, Marion county, Kan- 
sas. She had been elected county superintendent of 
the schools of Marion county a short time before 
her death. 

Issue : 

1. Cora Wise, died in 1873. 

2. Vivian Stewart Wise, died in 1873. 

3. Esther Wise, died in 1873. 





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Enii^JhfC.a.liu.li iTf 



PART III 

THE BARD KINSHIP 

POTTER 

^T^ HE Potter family of the Conococheague, which 
-*- presents a comphcated but, perhaps, not in- 
sohible genealogical problem as regards the relation- 
ship of the Bards and the Potters, is apparently de- 
scended from Captain George Potter, an officer in 
Cromwell's army, in Ireland. Little is known of 
Captain Potter's history, but in 1675, his services 
were requited by a grant of land, in scattered plots, 
in JNlagherastaphana barony. County Fermanagh. 
He was still living in 1683, when he sold his entire 
grant to James Corry, ancestor of the Earl of Bel- 
more. Captain George Potter had a son, Abraham 
Potter, and Thomas Potter, of Ballynant, who signed 
the marriage bond of John Potter and Catharine 
Crozier, both of the parish of Kilskerry, County 
Tyrone, with John Crozier, of IMulleghmon, County 
P^ermanagh, in 1727, was probably a grandson. The 
Potters continued to live in the neighborhood of 
Magheracross, on the road from Enniskillen to 
Omagh, for two or three generations before John 
Potter, of Conococheague, emigrated to Pennsylvania, 
in 1741. That they remained is shown by the fact 
that Wilham Potter, former American Ambassador ^ 
at Rome, is a descendant of Captain George Potter. 
Incidentally it may be mentioned that AVilliam 

f299) 



300 THE BARD FAMILY 

Potter, of INIossfield, Devonish parish. County Fer- 
managh, signed a marriage bond, September 1, 1751, 
for the marriage of Wilhain Breen, of Shellone, 
Kilskerry, with Ehzabeth Potter, of Kilgartnallagh, 
in Kilskerry parish. 

One is ahnost tempted to beheve that Catharine 
Crozier, of Kilskerry, was the first wife of Captain 
John Potter, of Conococheague, and the mother of 
General James Potter, who was born in 1729. 
According to the late Adam Boyd Hainilton, of 
Harrisburg, l^a., John Potter, the emigrant, was 

married by the Rev. Baptist Boyd to Sarah ; 

Mr. Hamilton also says that Potter's sister, Isabella, 
was married to his ancestor, John Hamilton, by Mr. 
Boyd. Baptist Boyd was for many years the Presby- 
terian minister at Auchnacloy, a post town on the 
river Blackwater, County Tyrone. When Captain 
Potter died, at his home near Brown's Mill, in 1757, 
he left a wife, Martha. It is not impossible that 
Captain Potter was married three times, but it is 
more likely that JNIr. Boyd Hamilton's Sarah of tra- 
dition was in fact Martha. The latter is a family 
name with both the Potter and the Bard families, but 
the former is not found in either. Apart from all 
this, it is highly probable that Martha Potter was a 
sister of Archibald Beard, or a sister of his wife. If 
Archibald Beard was married at or near Coal island, 
it is likely that Baptist Boyd was the officiating 
minister. Were Mr. Boyd's marriage lists extant, 
they would probably solve all these problems, but a 
thorough search for them only tends to disprove 
their existence. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 301 

In Richard Bard's Ballad, and in Judge Archi- 
bald Bard's "Narrative of the Captivity of Richard 
Bard and his Wife," Thomas Potter, a son of John 
and Martha Potter, who was a companion of the 
Bards in misfortune, and the first of the party of 
captives to fall before the fury of the savages, is 
always described as a cousin. In Richard Bard's 
Ballad, Thomas Potter is mentioned in two of the 
stanzas, as follows: 



One of the foremost that came 

With him a cutlass brought; 
But cousin Potter tpok the same: 

As they together fought. 

Not far, however, did we go 

Ere came we to a hill, 
Where they our cousin Potter's blood 

Inhumanly did spill. 

In Judge Bard's "Narrative" the statement of 
relationship is simple, and yet not explicit : " Thomas 
Potter, brother of General Potter, who had come the 
evening before, being a full cousin." Richard Bard's 
w^ife, Catharine Poe, was a daughter of Thomas Poe 
and JNIary Potter, a sister of Captain John Potter. 
Consequently, Thomas Potter and Catharine Poe 
Bard were full cousins, but the phrase "our cousin," 
in the ballad, implies a double cousinship.* One word 

'In one account, compiled from Judge Bard's '* Narrative," Thomas 
Potter is said to be Richard Bard's nephew. This error is due to the 
carelessness of the compiler. 



302 THE BARD FAMILY 

that may mean a double coiisinship only by marriage 
is not proof of double cousinship by blood, but it 
must be remembered that the most intimate relations 
between the Potters and the Beards existed when 
Richard Bard and Catharine Poe were in their in- 
fancy. This intimacy began in Ireland, for when 
John Potter and his sister, Isabella, with her hus- 
band, John Hamilton, arrived in the Delaware, at 
Newcastle, it was from Archibald Beard's house, in 
Miln Creek Hundred, that the infant son of the 
Hamiltons was buried. Such events occur only in 
families when a close relationship exists by inter- 
marriage. If Thomas Potter and Richard Bard were 
cousins, the only tenable hypotheses are those already 
stated — either that Archibald Beard and John Potter 
married sisters, or that John Potter married a sister 
of Archibald Beard. If the latter hypothesis is correct, 
the following chart will show the parentage of the 
three cousins : 

Bard Potter 



Arch. Beard x Martha Beard x Jno. Potter Mary Potter x Thos. Poe 

1700-1765 d. 1780 d. 1737 d. 1780 d. 1770 



Richard Bard Thomas Potter Catharine Poe 

1736-1799 d. 1758 1737-1811 



TOHN POTTER, presumed to be a son of 
^ Thomas Potter, of Ballynant, County Fer- 
managh, Ireland, was born early in the eighteenth 
century, and died in Antrim township, Cumberland, 
now Franklin county. Pa., in 1757. He came to 
America with his brother-in-law, John Hamilton, 
whose wife, Isabella, was his sister. They made the 
voyage on the ship " Donegal," arriving at Newcastle, 
on the Delaware, September 2.5, 1741. INIr. Potter 
settled in the Cumberland \' alley as early as 1746, 
and, perhaps, earlier. He was lieutenant of Captain 
George Brown's company, in Colonel Benjamin 
Chambers' regiment, in 1748, and when Cumberland 
county was organized, in 1750, he served on the first 
grand jury. He became the first sheriff of the new 
county. After serving his first term as sheriff, 1750- 
51, he was given a second term, 1754-55. 

A survey of lands in the Conococheague Valley 
was made to John Hamilton, April 18, 1747. In a 
survey made to John Potter, April 12, 1754, the 
same lands are mentioned as belonging to Robert 
Hamilton. The name of Robert Hamilton occurs 
among the list of taxables for Antrim township, 
Cumberland county, in 1751. As these lands passed 
into the possession of John Potter and were adjacent 
to lands surveyed to Thomas Poe, in INIarch, 1752, it 
is to be inferred that Robert Hamilton was nearly 
akin to John Hamilton, and that John came to the 



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Conocoheague with the intention of setthng near his 
brothers-in-law, Poe and Potter. In 1752, this land 
was part of the lands of John Potter. I^ater it passed 
to Humphrey Fullerton, while other Potter lands 
adjoining the Poe tract, and running eastward along 
the Fullerton line, went to Captain John Woods. 




Poe and Potter Plantations 

Neither the extent of, nor the title to the Potter 
lands is clearly defined in such records as are acces- 
sible. It is sufficient for the present purpose to say 
that they embraced the entire sweep of country from 
the "Great Road," south of Marion, extending east- 
ward along the Antrim township line to the road 
from Brown's Mill, that intersects the Chambersburg 
and Greencastle road at the "Gabby Farm," and 
south and southwest as far as the old J'ullerton mill, 
on Muddy Run. From the mill the original Potter 



THE BARD KINSHIP 



305 



lands went west and northwest to the Poe phmtation. 
The John Potter warrant of October 9, 1750, sur- 
veyed April 13, 1754, was near the center of this 
extensive tract, beginning at the Poe plantation, and 
extending southeast to a point near the Brown's Mill 
graveyard, to lands of George Latimer, at the time 
of the John Potter survey. Latimer was Potter's 
son-in-law, having married his daughter, Margaret. 






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John Potter Survey 



The foregoing draft of the small Potter tract is from 
a copy made by Emanuel Kulm, from the original 
of John Armstrong. 

Its position in the Fullerton survey is indicated 
approximately by dotted lines. It is probable that 
the corner of the triangle, at George Latimer's land, 
touched Muddy Run, and included the spring and 
the old dwelling house at the grove near the Brown's 
Mill graveyard. This is one of the oldest houses in 



306 THE BARD FAMILY 

the Conococheagiie Valley, and it is the oldest dwel- 
ling of the colonial period in the county that is still 
standing. It was built by Captain John Potter, about 
1746, and was his home at the outbreak of the 
French and Indian war. In it he died, in 1757. Be- 
fore his death it was a refuge for many of his neigh- 
bors, flying for safety from the onslaughts of the 




Old Potter Mansion 

savages. When lie was at rest, in an luimarked 
grave, in Brown's JNlill graveyard, to this house came 
the venerable Thomas Brown, the ancestor of the 
Browns of Brown's JNlill, intent upon courting the 
A\^idow Potter, and fi'om this house he married her, 
in 1760. After the AVidow Potter became JNlrs. 
Martha Brown, Captain Potter's eldest son, James, 
afterwards General James Potter, made the house 
his home, Avith his uimiarried sisters and his cousin, 



THE BARD KINSHIP 307 

Katharine Hamilton, until 1767, when he removed 
to Penn's A alley, in what is now Centre county. It 
was early in this latter period, 1760-67, tliat young 
James Chambers, the eldest son of Colonel Benjamin 
Chambers, the founder of Cliambersburg, came to 
the Potter home courting JMiss Hamilton, the orphan 
daugliter of John Hamilton and Isabella Potter, 
whom he made his wife. So, it will be seen tliat the 
old Potter homestead has its tales of love as well as 
war. It is a house worthy in every way of its history. 
It is not an imposing structure, but in its day it was, 
no doubt, regarded as a house of more than ordinary 
proportions. It is only a story and a half in height, 
and was built of limestone, rudely dressed. It has a 
peaked roof and there is a window in the south gable. 
The walls are now cracked and seamed in many 
places, and show signs all over them of the destroy- 
ing hand of time for more than a century and a 
half, but the masonry was so strong that the build- 
ing may still be regarded as in a good state of pres- 
ervation. As executor of his father's will, James 
Potter sold the land on which the Potter homestead 
stood to Humphrey Fullerton, by whom it was 
patented, March 6, 1763. 

In addition to the land in Antrim township, the 
warrant for which was dated October 9, 1750, 
Captain Potter, on the same day, in conjunction with 
Robert Li\'ers, obtained a warrant for a larffc tract 
at the head of Antietam, in the South Mountain. 
The latter is now a part of the lands of the Mont 
Alto Iron Company. The Potter interest in the 
mountain tract was taken at its appraised value. May 



308 THE BARD FAMILY 

19, 1767, by James Potter, the eldest son of John, 
to whom Robert Livers conveyed his interest, April 
16, 1774. James Potter conveyed 192 acres of this 
tract to Daniel Baker and 205 acres to Thomas 
Stoops, March 6, 1775. Mrs. Mary Stoops died on 
the Stoops farm, October 13, 1828, aged 117 years, 
having lived in the same house sixty-five years. 

Sheriff Potter was very active at the outbreak of 
the French and Indian war that followed the defeat 
of Braddock, in 1755. On the 30th of October he 
attended a meeting at Shippensburg, at which it was 
determined to erect forts at Carlisle, Shippensburg, 
Chambers' Mills, Mr. Steel's Meeting-house and 
William Allison's. The fort at Allison's (Greencastle) 
was not built, but Potter's house became a refuge 
for the fleeing inhabitants, as many as a hundred 
women and children seeking safety there after the 
attack on the Big Cove, November 1, 1755. Potter 
had already organized his neighbors into an emer- 
gency company for the defense of their homes against 
the savages, and when he heard of the massacre he 
sent word to his men to meet at McDowell's Mill. 
"On Sunday morning," he wrote, "I was not there 
six minutes till we observed, about a mile and a half 
distant, one Matthew Patton's house and barn in 
flames; on which we set off with about forty men, 
though there were at least one hundred and sixty 
there; our old officers hid themselves, for aught I 
knew, to save their scalps, until afternoon, when the 
the danger was over. ... It was three o'clock in 
the afternoon before a recruit came of about sixty 
men, then we held a council whether to pursue up the 



THE BARD KINSHIP 309 

Indians all night or return to McDowell's, the former 
of which I and Mr. Hoops, and some others, plead 
for, but could not obtain it without putting it to 
vote, which done we were outv^oted by a considerable 
number, upon which T and company were left by 
them ; that night I came home, for I will not guard a 
man that will not fight when called in so eminent a 
manner; for there were not six of these men that 
would consent to go in pursuit of the Indians." 

Mr. Potter was commissioned captain in Colonel 
John Armstrong's battalion, February, 175(3, with his 
son James as ensign of his company. His name dis- 
appears from the rolls of the Provincial forces after 
1756, but he continued active at head of his neighbors 
in defense of the frontier, until his death. 

It is believed that Captain Potter was twice 
married. If this assumption is correct, his first wife 
was Catharine Crozier, daughter of John Crozier, of 
Mulleghmon, Coimty Fermanagh, Ireland. In that 
case the marriage was in 1727. He was married (2) 

to Martha , believed to have been JNIartlia 

Beard, or Bard. She survived him and died in 1780. 

Issue : 

1. James Potter, of whom presently. 

2. Samuel Potter, of whom presently. 

3. Thomas Potter, was killed by the Indians after the 
capture of the Bard family, April 13, 1758. The place of his 
murder is still pointed out, a short distance north of Vir<^inia 
Mills, in Adams county, Pa. Judge Bard, in his "Narrative," 
calls him Lieutenant Potter. He probably served in that 
capacity in his father\s company, on the Conococheague, 1756— 57. 

4. Margaret Potter, married George Latimer, a native of 



310 THE BARD FAMILY 

Ireland, who died in Westmoreland county, Pa., in 1793. He 
settled on Muddv Run, adjoining Captain Potter, but as early 
as 1766, he ac(|uired lands in Potter township. Centre county. 
Later he removed to AVestnioreland comity. Issue: John, 
Arthur, James, George, Thomas, Robert, Margaret, and Mar- 
tha. Arthur and George served with the Westmoreland County 
Rangers during the Revolution. George, who died in 1806, 
was married to Margaret Cathcart, a sister of the first wife 
of General James Potter. 

5. Annas Potter, married Alexander Young, who died in 
1790. He served \\ith Captain James Poe"'s marching company 
in the campaign around Philadelphia, in 1777; they had a son, 
James. 

6. Catharine Potter, married James Carothers, of whom 
presently. 

7. Mary Potter, married James Beai'd, and had a son, 
James Potter. 

8. Hannah Potter, married (1), John McMillan; (i2), 
Thomas Robin.son. 

9. Isabella Potter, married Jordan, and had a son, 

John. 

Captain Potter's widow, Martha Potter, was married in 
1760, to Thomas Brown, the ancestor of the Brown 
family, of Brown's Mill, in Antrim township, Franklin 
county, Pa. He was one of the earliest settlers in the 
Conococheague Valley. In 1738, he joined with Ben- 
jamin Chambers in a supplication to Donegal Presby- 
tery for a pastor for East Conococheague. Mi'. Brown 
died in 1769. 

Isabella Potter, presumed to be a daughter of 
Thomas Potter, of Ballyuaut, died on shipboard, at 
Newcastle, on the Delaware, September 25, 17-tl. 
She was married in January, 1735, to John Hamil- 
ton, son of James Hamilton. He was born in 1704, 



THE BARD KINSHIP 311 

iind died in Chester county, Pa., in 1755. He emi- 
grated to America, with his wife and family and his 
brother-in-law, Captain John Potter, arriving- at New- 
castle, Del., on the day of jNIrs. Hamilton's death. 

Issue : 

1. Catharine Hamilton, was born in Ireland, in 1737, and 
died at Ludlow Station, now Cincinnati, Ohio, January 14, 
1820. She was married February 16, 1763, to James Cham- 
bers, son of Colonel Benjamin and Sarah (Patterson) Chambers. 
He was colonel of the 1st regiment, Pennsylvana Line, in the 
Reyolution. Issue: Benjamin; Sarah Bella, married (1), An- 
drew Uunlop, and (2), Archibald McAllister ; Charlotte, 
married (1), Colonel Israel Ludlow, and (2), Rev. David 
Riske; Ruhamah, married William B. Scott; and Catharine, 
born September 26, 1775, and died October 5, 1775. 

2. John Hamilton, died in infancy, and was buried, 
October 17, 1741, "at Archibald Beard's, in Miln Creek 
Hundred, Newcastle county, Del. " 

John Halnilton is believed to have been a son of James 
Hamilton, of Cavanduggan, and Margaret Morris, his 
wife; ^grandson of Francis Hamilton, of Tullybrick, 
County Armagh, and Elizabeth Echlin, his wife, and a 
great-grandson of John Hamilton, of Hamilton's Bawn, 
and Sarah, daughter of Sir Anthony Brabazon. John 
of the Bawn, was a son of the Rev. Hans Hamilton, 
vicar of Dunlop, in Scotland, whose eldest son, Sir 
James Hamilton, was the first Viscount Claneboye. 



II 



TAMES POTTER, son of Captain John Potter, 
^ was born in Ireland, in 1729, and died at the 
house of Captain James Poe, on Conococheague, 
in Antrim township, Franklin county, Pa., in No- 
vember, 1789. He was buried in Brown's Mill grave- 
yard, but no stone marks the place of his sepulture. 
Young Potter came to America with his father, in 
1741. He grew to manhood on his father's farm, in 
Antrim township, and became conspicuous for cour- 
age and enterprise in the French and Indian war. 
He was commissioned ensign, April 17, 1756, in 
Captain John Potter's company, of Colonel John 
Armstrong's battalion, and participated in the ex- 
pedition against Kittanning, in the autumn of 1756. 
Ensign Potter was severely wounded in the assault 
upon the Indian town. He was appointed lieutenant, 
in the Colonel's company, December 4, 1757, and 
promoted to captain, February 17, 1759. After 1760, 
he was not regularly in the service of the Province, 
but he had a company of emergency men with which 
he pursued the Indians that murdered Enoch Brown, 
the schoolmaster, and the school children, at the 
Brown's Mill schoolhouse, July 26, 1764. 

About 1770, Captain Potter removed to Penn's 
Valley, afterward in Northumberland, and now in 
Centre county. After the beginning of hostilities, 
in 1775, he was active in promoting the Revolution, 
and was chosen colonel of the Second Battalion 

(312) 



THE BARD KINSHIP 318 

of Xorthiiniberland County Assoeiators, January 24, 
1776, Colonel Potter represented Northumberland 
county in the Pennsylvania Convention of July 15, 
177(). Colonel Potter's battalion saw active service 
in the New Jersey campaign of 177(3-77. After the 
battle of Princeton, when Cornwallis, by a forced 
march, appeared at Stony Brook, General Washing- 
ton sent an order to Colonel Potter to destroy the 
bridge at AVortli's Mills. The order was executed by 
Major Kelley, of Potter's battalion, in sight of the 
advancing British. 

Colonel Potter was made a brigadier-general of 
the Pennsylvania militia, April 5, 1777. In the cam- 
paign, of that year, around Philadelphia, his services 
were very important. In order to prevent General 
Howe from obtaining supplies for his army in the 
well-cultivated district west of the Schuylkill, Gen- 
eral Potter, with his militia, w^as ordered to watch the 
enemy from the west bank of the river, about Gray's 
Ferry, and to scour the country between that river 
and Chester. His correspondence with Washington 
during the campaign was very voluminous, and the 
information furnished by him was so highly appre- 
ciated by the Commander-in-chief that in the spring 
of 1778 General Washington asked for the return of 
General Potter to the army. Besides his services in 
camp and field. General Potter was a member of 
the Supreme Executive Council, of Pennsylvania, 
and he was chosen vice president of the council, 
November 14, 1781, General Potter was commis- 
sioned a major-general, in 1782. His volunninous 
correspondence with Washington was printed in the 



314 THE BARD FAMILY 

"Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography," 
1895-97. 

After the Revolution, General Potter continued 
to serve in the Supreme Executive Council, and in 
1784 he came witliin a few votes of defeating John 
Dickinson for president of the state. He was ap- 
pointed deputy surveyor for Northumberland county, 
April 18, 1785, and he also served as one of the 
justices of the courts of the county. He left one 
of the most extensive and vahiable estates in Penn- 
sylvania. One object of his visit to his daughter, 
Mrs. Poe, just before his death, in 1789, was to con- 
sult Dr. Robert Johnston, a distinguished surgeon of 
the Revolution. 

General Potter was twice married. His first wife 
was Elizabeth Cathcart, of Philadelphia. He was 
married (2), to Mary Patterson Chambers, daughter 
of Major James Patterson, and widow of Thomas 
Chambers. 

Issue bv bis first wife: 

1. John Potter, died at Middle Creek, Centre county, Pa., 
aged 18. 

2. Elizabeth Cathcart Potter, married James Poe. (See 
Poe family.) 

Issue by his second wife: 

1. James Potter, of whom presently, 

2. Mary Potter, married (1), George Riddles; (2), William 
McClelland, and had Robert McClelland, of Penn's Valley. 

3. Martha Potter, married Andrew Gregg, of whom pre- 
sently. 

4. Margaret Potter, born in 1775, and died February 27, 
1795. She was married to Edward Crouch, son of Captain 
James and Hannah (Brown) Crouch, of "Walnut Hill," near 



THE BARD KINSHIP 315 

Highspire, Dauphin county, Pa. Issue: Mary Crouch, who 
married Benjamin Jordan. 

General Potter\s first wife, Elizabeth Cathcart, was a 
sister of Dr. ^Villiam Cathcart, of Philadelphia, who 
was surgeon of the 4th Continental Dragoons, 1777-78. 
General Potter's second wife, Mary Patterson Chambers, 
was a daughter of James and Mary (Stewart) Patter- 
son. Her father was a son of James Patterson, the 
Indian trader, and was born at what is now Washing- 
ton borough, Lancaster county, Pa., in 1715, and died 
at his fort, at Mexico, Juniata county, in 1772. He 
was a captain under Colonel John Armstrong, in the 
French and Indian war. His wife, Mary Stewart, was a 
daughter of George Stewart, the Indian trader. Mrs. 
Potter's first husband, Thomas Chambers, was a son of 
Joseph and Catharine Chambers, of Chambers' Mill, at 
the mouth of Fishing Creek, above Harrisburg. He 
was killed in an Indian foray, in the Juniata Valley. 

Samuel Potter, son of Captain John I'otter, settled 
in Westmoreland county, Pa., where he died in 1811. 
He served with the A^^estmoreland County Rangers 
during the Revolution. JMr. Potter was married to 
his cousin, Susanna Poe, daughter of Thomas and 
Mary (Potter) Poe. 

Issue : 

1. John Potter, settled in Mercer county. Pa. 

2. Thomas Potter, lived in Westmoreland county, Pa. 

3. Martha Potter, married William Hill. 

4. Olivia Potter. 

5. Anne Potter, married Robert Brown, an early merchant 
at Greensburg, Pa., and had a son, Samuel Potter Brown, a 
prominent phyvsician, who was born April 10, 1801, and died 



316 THE BARD FAMILY 

May 30, 1860. Dr. Brown was married March 16, 1830, to 
Mary Jane Nichols, daughter of John Nichols, of Westmore- 
land county, Pa., and had a son, William. 

6. Catharine Potter, married (1), James Carnahan, who 
was drowned in the Allegheny river, in 1786-87, He entered 
the Revolutionary service as a second lieutenant, in Miles'' 
Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, March .16, 1776, but had the 
misfortune to be captured, at the battle of I^ong Island, 
August 26, 1776. After his exchange he was promoted to be 
first lieutenant and captain, and served till the close of the war. 
He had a son, James Carnahan. After Captain Carnahan''s 
death, his widow married (2), Matthew McClanahan, an early 
settler of Westmoreland county, Pa., and had a son, Matthew- 
Potter McClanahan, who was born January 2, 1806, and died 
January 3, 1881. He was an associate judge of Westmoreland 
county. Judge McClanahan was twice married, first. May 22, 
1834, to Sarah Watson, who died December 21, 1852, and 
second, February 11, 1869, to Emeline Willett, of Allegheny 
county, Pa. By his first marriage, he had a son, William 
Elliott McClanahan. 

7. Margaret Potter. 

8. Mary Potter. 

Catharine Potter, daughter of Captain John Potter, 
was married to James Carothers, a native of Ireland, 
who emigrated to Pennsyhania before the Revolution, 
and died in Sewickley township, Westmoreland 
county, February 18, 1801. He first settled in Lan- 
caster county, where he enlisted in Captain Thomas 
Boude's company, 5th regiment, Pennsylvania Line. 
He was wounded at (ireen Springs, Va., July 6, 
1781. After the Revolution he settled on the Little 
Sewickley Creek, Sewickley township, Westmore- 
land county, and became a farmer. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 317 

Issue : 

1. James Carothers, was twice married. His first wife was 
Wood, by whom he had two daughters. He was 



married (2), to Elizabeth MoChu-e, daughter of James McClure, 
and had John and Ehzabeth. 

2. John Carothers, was born in 1789, and died December 
2, 1858. He was married to Isabella Power, daughter of the 
Rev. James Power. Issue: James P., William Swan, Marv 
and Catharine, wife of the Rev. Joseph D. McKee. 

3. Samuel Carothers, of whom presently. 

4. Martha Carothers. 

5. Jane Carothers. 

6. Elizabeth Carothers. 



Ill 



TAMES POTTER, son of General James and 
^ Mary (Patterson) Potter, was born in Franklin 
county, Pa., July 4, 1767, and died December 2, 
1818. He established himself at Potter's Mills, in 
Centre county, in 1789, and succeeded his father 
as deputy surveyor for the Sixth District of Penn- 
sylvania. ITpon his father's death, he acquired large 
landed interests in central Pennsylvania. General 
Potter, Judge NA'^illiam Brown and Major Mont- 
gomery owned the site of Eewistown when JNIifflin 
county was established. In 1790, James Potter, the 
younger, joined in laying out the town. Judge 
Potter was married December 15, 1788, to Mary 
Brown, daughter of Judge William Brown. She was 
born June 15, 1770, and died January G, 1823. 

Issue : 

1. James Potter, of whom presently. 

2. William W. Potter, of whom presently. 

3. George Latimer Potter, was born at Potter's Mills, 
Centre county, Pa., January 13, 1795, and died unmarried. 
April 22, 1832. He studied law and was admitted to the 
Centre County Bar, 1817; later he removed to Danville, Pa., 
where he died. 

4. John Potter, of whom presently. 

5. Andrew Gregg Potter, was born December 22, 1805, 
and died January 25, 1806. 

6. Mary P. Potter, married Dr. William I. Wilson, of 
whom presently. 

(3 IS) 



THE BARD KINSHIP 319 

7. Margaret Crouch Potter, was born November 15, 1802, 
and died December, 1824. She married Dr. Coburn, of Ebens- 
burg, Pa.; no children. 

8. Martha Gregg Potter, was born November 5, 1804, and 
died June 17, 1824. She married Abraham Valentine. 

Mrs. Potter's father, Judge William Brown, was a son 
of Alexander Brown, an early settler on the West 
Conococheague Creek, two miles east of Mercersburg, 
Pa., and a brother of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander 
Brown, who connnanded the 8th Regiment, Cumberland 
County Associators, in 1780. When James Alexander 
went to the Kishocoquillas to make a settlement. Judge 
Brown accompanied him, and located near the entrance 
of the valley, afterwards the village of Brown's Mills, 
now Reedsville. In conjunction with General James 
Potter and Major Montgomery, he became one of the 
owners of the site of Lewistown. He was one of the 
trustees for the erection of Mifflin county, of which he 
was appointed a justice of the peace. He served as 
president of the courts until the Constitution of 1790 
went into effect. His home, at Brown's Mills, was near 
the site of Logan's Springs, where Logan, the celebrated 
Indian chief, had his cabin. Judge Brown was born in 
1737, and died in 1825, and Mary, his wife, was born 
in 1747, and died in 1815. 

JNIartha Potter, daughter of General James and 
Mary (Patterson) Potter, was married to Andrew 
Gregg, son of Andrew and Jean (Scott) Gregg. Mr. 
Gregg was born near Carlisle, Pa., June 10, 1755, 
and died at Bellefonte, Pa., May 20, 1835. He was 
educated at Carlisle, Pa., and Newark, Del., where 
he served with the militia during the Revolution. 
He was a tutor in the College of Philadelphia, now 



S20 THE BARD FAMILY 

the University of Pennsylvania, 1779-83, and a mer- 
chant at Middletown, Pa., 1783-89. After his mar- 
riage he removed to Penn's ^^alley. He was a repre- 
sentative in Congress from Pennsylvania, 1791-1807, 
and a United States Senator, 1807-13. In 1816, he 
was appointed secretary of state, for Pennsylvania, 
and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor, in 
1823. He was a man of vigorous constitution and a 
fine classical scholar. He left an unfinished sketch of 
his family history that was published in Dr. William 
H. Egle's " Pennsylvania Genealogies." 

Issue : 

1. Mary Gregg, married William McLanahan, of whom 
presently. 

2. Jean Gregg, married Roland Curtin, of whom presently. 

3. Martha Gregg, was born June 7, 1793. She was married 
to Dr. Constans Curtin. 

4. Eliza Gregg, was born June 2, 1795. She was married 
to David Mitchell. 

5. Juliana Gregg, married James Irvin, of whom })resently. 

6. Andrew Gregg, of whom presently. 

7. James Potter Gregg, was born April 28, 1802. He was 
married to Eliza Wilson. 

8. Matthew Duncan Gregg, of whom presently. 

9. Sarah Gregg, was born January 23, 1807. She was 
married to Henry Kinney. 

10. Margery Gregg, was born September 14, 1811. She 
was married to Rev. Charles Tucker. 

Senator Gregg's father, Andrew Gregg, was born at 
Ballyarnat, near Londonderry, Ireland, about 1710, and 
died near Carlisle, Pa., November 18, 1789. He emi- 
grated to New Hampshire in 1722, but removed to 
Delaware about 1726. The next year he settled at 



THE BARD KINSHIP 321 

Chestnut Level, in Lancaster county, Pa., where he 
made an unfortunate purchase of land that resulted in 
litigation. In 1748 he sold his claim and removed to 
the Cumberland Valley, settling on the north side of 
the Conodoguinet Creek, within sight of Meetinghouse 
Springs Church. He served in defense of the frontier 
during the French and Indian war. Mr. Gregg was 
twice married. The name of his first wife is unknown. 
He was married second to Jean Scott, daughter of Wil- 
liam Scott, of Chestnut Level. She was born in 1725, 
and died September 30, 1783. Issue by his first wife: 
John, James, Rachel, Margaret, Jean and Elizabeth. 
Issue by his second wife: Andrew and Matthev\-. 
Matthew Gregg was a wagonmaster with the Pennsyl- 
vania militia in the Revolution. 

Samuel Carothers, son of James and Catharine 
(Potter) Carothers, was born in Sewickley township, 
Westmoreland county, Pa., in 1789. He was a 
farmer, and conducted the Carothers homestead, in 
his native township. He was married to Ruth Elliott. 

Issue : 

1. William E. Carothers, was reared on the old Carothers 
homestead. In 1865, he removed to Fayette county. He was 
married to Caroline Taylor, daughter of Isaac Taylor, of 
Allegheny county. Pa., and had John Richey Carothers. 

2. Eliza Carothers, married (1). Charles Hunter; (2), 
Joseph Markle Thompson, of whom presently. 

3. Martha Carothers, married James Kirker. 

4. Jane Carothers, married John Richey. 



IV 

JAMES POTTER, son of James mid Mary 
(Brown) Potter, was born at Potter's Mills, 
Centre county. Pa., December 1, 1789, and died at 
Madison, Ind., March 22, 186.5. He was extensively 
engaged in business with his brother, John, but the 
firm of J. & J. Potter failed, in 1849. He afterwards 
removed to Indiana. Mr. Potter was married (1), 
December 20, 1814, to Maria Wilson, daughter of 
William Wilson, of Chillisquaqua Mills. She died 
April 15, 1827. He was married (2), March 3, 1829, 
to JNIrs. Susan Irvin Duncan, daughter of .John Irvin, 
and widow of Thomas Duncan. 

Issue by his first wife: 

1. James Potter, was born September 30, 1815. 

2. Susan Potter, was born September 29, 1817, and died 
in Washington, D. C, June 2, 1899. She was married to Ur. 
O. P. Duncan. Issue: Adelia, married Captain David Irwin, 
who died February 28, 1901, and Margaret married Dr. Tesson, 
who died at Seattle, Wash., in 1901. 

3. AVilliam Wilson Potter, of whom presently. 

4. John Potter, was born May 10, 1821. 

5. George Latimer Potter, of whom presently. 

6. Andrew Gregg Potter, was born December, 1826. 

Issue by his second wife: 

1. Thomas Duncan Potter, was born December 1, 1829. 

2. Irvin Walters Potter, was born March 8, 1831. 

3. Maria L. Potter, was born March 15, 1833. She was 
married November 8, 1855, to Dr. J. G. Hendricks. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 323 

4. Annie Amelia I'otter, was bom July 4, 1835. She was 
married March 1 0, 1 857, to W. C. Spaulding. 

5. Jacob Lex Potter, was born February 2, 1838. 

6. Charles H. Potter, was born July 15, 1842. 

7. Mary Ellen Potter, was born October 26, 1844. She 
was married June 25, 1865, to Simeon H. Crane. 

William Wilson, the father of Maria AVilson Potter, 
was born in Ireland, and died at Northumberland, Pa., 
in 1813. He emigrated to Pennsylvania before the 
Revolution and settled in Northumberland county. He 
became 3rd lieutenant of Captain John Eowden's com- 
pany, in Colonel Thompson's Riflemen, June 25, 1775; 
was promoted 2d lieutenant, January 4, 1776; 1st 
lieutenant, September 25, 1776; and captain in the 
1st Regiment, Pennsylvania Line, Maix-h 2, 1777. He 
was breveted major, September 30, 1783, and served 
to November 3, 1783. At Monmouth he secured the 
colors of the Royal Grenadiers and the sword of 
Colonel Monckton. He gave the sword to General 
Wayne, by whom it was given to General Lafayette; 
the Marquis restored it to the Wilson family in 1824. 
Major Wilson was ap})()inted county lieutenant of 
Northumberland county. May 20, 1784. He was a 
mendjer of the Pennsylvania Convention to ratify the 
Federal Constitution of 1787, and a member of the 
Supreme Executive Council. He was appointed associate 
judge for Northumberland county in 1792. Major Wil- 
son built Chillistjuaqua Mills, four miles above Northum- 
berland. He was married to Mary Scott, daughter of 
Captain Abraham Scott, of Packer's Island. His eldest 
son, Samuel Hunter AVilson, was an associate judge of 
Centre county, and another son, Abraham Scott Wil- 
son, was president judge of Huntingdon, Mifflin and 
Union counties. 



324 thp: bard family 

John Irvin, the father of Susan Irvin Potter, was born 
in Ireland in 1764, and died in Centre county, Pa., 
September 29, 1843. He settled in Penn's Valley, and 
built mills at Linden Hall, Oak Hall and Sinking Creek. 
He became the largest land owner in the valley except 
the Potters. He was married to Ann Watson, daughter 
of James AVatson, of Centre county. Pa. She was born 
in 1781, and died March 15, 1855. 

William W. Potter, son of James and INIaiy 
(Brown) Potter, was l)orn at Potter's Mills, Centre 
county. Pa., December 13, 1792, and died October 
29, 1839. He entered the Latin school of the Rev. 
Thomas Hood, near Lewisburg, in 1809, and was 
graduated at Dickinson College. He studied law 
with Charles Huston, and was admitted to the Centre 
County Bar in April, 1814. He practiced his profes- 
sion at Bellefonte. In 1832 he declined a nomination 
for Congress, but he was elected in 1836, and re- 
elected in 1838. JMr. Potter was married INIarch 20, 
1815, to Lucy \A"inters, daughter of W^illiam and 
Eleanor (Campbell) A\''inters. She was born August 
29, 1790, and died May 30, 1875. AVilliam W. and 
lAicy Potter had no children. 

Mrs. Potter's father, AVilliam Winters, was born in 
1728, and died at the site of Williamsport, Pa., in 
1794. He was married (1), in 1747, to Ann Boone, a 
sister of Colonel Daniel Boone, the famous Kentucky 
pioneer. His eldest daughter by this marriage married 
Abraham Lincoln, of Rockbridge county, Va., the 
grandfather of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President 
of the United States. Mr. Winters was married (2), in 
1771, to Eleanor Campl)ell, by whom he had three sons 



THE BARD KINSHIP 325 

and five daughters. One of these, Mary Winters, was 
the wife of Charles Huston, Justice of the Supreme 
Court of Pennsylvania, and her sister, Ellen Winters, 
was married to Judge Thomas Burnside. 

John Potter, son of James and JNIary (Brown) 
Potter, was born at Potter's JNIills, January 13, 1800, 
and died November 20, 1886. He was extensively 
engaged in business with liis brother James, but the 
firm of J. L^ J. Potter failed, in 1849. In 1850, he 
remo\ed to Wisconsin, where he engaged in the 
lumber business, at Fond du Lac. He filled many 
positions of public trust. JNlr. Potter was married 
December 12, 1822, to Amelia Burnside, daughter of 
William Burnside, a brothei* of Judge Thomas Burn- 
side. She was born in 1804. 

Issue : 

1. James G. Potter, was born July 24, 1826. He was 
married to Eliza A. Root, of Fond du Lac, Wis. Issue: Henry 
Root, born at Fond du Lac, October 31, 1861, married May 13, 
1886, Clementina B. Brown, and had Hamilton, died in in- 
fancy ; Amelia Burnside, born February 1, 1857, died Sep- 
tember 22, 1858; Ellen Dorsey, born May 22, 1858, married 
May 7, 1879, Winthrop Scribner, and had Percy Root, Robert 
Winthrop, Henry Potter, Nelly Potter and Louise. 

2. Thomas Burnside Potter, of whom presently. 

3. William N. Potter, was born December 5, 1832, and 
died August 1, 1901. 

JMary P. Potter, daughter of James and Mary 
(Brown) Potter, was born April 8, 1798, and died 
January 19, 1861. She was married February 23, 
1819, to William Irvine Wilson, son of Hugh and 
Catharine (Irvine) Wilson. He was born near 



326 THE BARD FAMILY 

Hartleton, Union county, Pa., November 10, 1793, 
and died at Bellefonte, September 22, 1883. He 
studied medicine with Dr. James Dougal, Sr., at 
Milton, Pa. In 1818, he removed to Centre county, 
practicing his profession for a brief period at Early- 
town, and subsequently at I'otter's JMills. 

Issue : 

1. James Potter AVilson, was born at Potter's Mills, July 
24, 1825, and died July 5, 1864. He was a surgeon of the 
United States Volunteers, 1861-64. Dr. Wilson was married 
September, 18-54, to Sarah I. Kinney, daughter of Henry and 
Sarah (Gregg) Kinney, and had a daughter, Juha I., deceased. 

2. William P. Wilson, was born at Potter's Mills, Decem- 
ber 30, 1837. During the Civil War he served on General 
Hancock's staff. Colonel Wilson was married April 22, 1869, 
to Ellen Dickson, daughter of the Rev. Hugh Dickson, D.D. 
Issue: Allen D., Wayne McVeigh, and Hugh Irvine. 

3. Catharine Irvine Wilson, married Andrew G. Curtin, of 
whom presentlv. 

4. Mary A. Wilson, was born September 25, 1828, and 
died unmarried. 

5. Lucv P. Wilson, was born October 19, 1830. She was 
married June 5, 1856, to Dr. Frederick Moyer. Issue: An- 
drew G. C, born March 2, 1857, and William W., born 
October 12, 1858. 

6. Elizabeth Wilson, was born March 23, 1833. She was 
married June 15, 1859, to the Rev. John Elliott, who was 
born April 13, 1829. Issue: Mary A., married Robert P. 
Carpenter, and Christiana. 

7. Laura Wilson, was born November 3, 1835. She was 
married May 12, 1857, to the Rev. George Elliott, a native of 
Ohio, who died in 1895. He served Presbyterian congregations 
in Illinois, in central Pennsylvania, the McComiellsburg, Green 



THE BARD KINSHIP 327 

Hill and WelPs Valley charge, and the churches at Orbi.sonia 
and Osceola Mills. Issue: William W., James W., John, 
Bessie, and Katie. 

8. Frank Wilson, was born January 31, 1842, and died 
8. p. He was a captain in the United States army. 

9. Alice Wilson, was born January 31, 1842. 

Dr. Wilson was descended from a soldier within the 
walls of Londonderry during the siege, whose name was 
either John or Hugh Wilson. His son, Hugh, was 
born at Cootehill, County Cavan, in 1689, and died in 
Allen township, Northampton county. Pa., in 1773. 
Hugh Wilson was married in Ireland to Sarah Craig, 
and emigrated to Pennsylvania about 1736. He settled 
in the Forks of the Delaware, and with Colonel Martin 
laid out the town of Easton. His son, Thomas, was 
born at Cootehill, in 1724, and died in Buffalo Valley, 
Pa., February 25, 1799. Thomas Wilson was married 
in 1760, to Sarah Hays, daughter of John and Jane 
(Loye) Hays, of Northampton county. Their eldest 
son, Hugh, was born October 21, 1761, and died near 
Lewisburg, October 9, 1845. He served with the 
Northampton county militia in the Revolution. He kept 
a store at Lewisburg, 1798-1804, and afterward lived 
on his farm in Buffalo Valley. Mr. Wilson was married 
February 19, 1790, to Catharine Irvine, daughter of 
Captain William Irvine, who was a cousin of General 
William Irvine. She was born November 16, 1758, 
and died August 21, 1835. Besides Dr. William Irvine 
Wilson, Hugh and Catharine Wilson had a son Francis, 
and two daugthers, Elizabeth, wife of William C. 
Steedman, and Margaret Irvine, married to James F. 
Linn. 
Mary Gregg, daughter of Andrew and INlartha 
(Potter) Gregg, was born November 2, 1788, and 



328 THE BARD FAMILY 

died January 9, 182G. She was married to William 
McLanahan, son of James and Isabella (Craig) 
McLanahan. He was born in Antrim township, 
Franklin county, Pa., in 1772, and died September 
27, 1883. He owned a fine plantation, on the East 
Conococheague, west of Greencastle, Pa. 

Issue : 

1. Andrew Gregg McLanahan, was born August 12, 1807. 
He lived on the old McLanahan homestead. He was married 
in 1837, to A. Elizabeth Doyle, daughter of George Doyle. 
She died March 28, 1880. Issue; E. Ormond, Dick, Andrew 
G., Celia, Jessie and Alice. 

2. James Xavier McLanahan, of whom presently. 

3. Isobel Craig McLanahan, married Joseph Muhlenberg 
Hiester, eldest son of John Sylvester Hiester. He was gradu- 
ated at Princeton and Jefferson Medical College. He lived at 
Millmont, in Franklin county, Pa. Issue: pAigenia, Maria Cath- 
arine Muhlenberg, and Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg. 

4. Mary McLanahan, was married to Dr. John Custis 
Richards. He was born in Baltimore, June 1, 1812, and died 
June 11, 1874. Dr. Richards was a prominent physician at 
Chambersbiu'g, Pa. Issue: Mary, married Marston Miles, of 
New York; Sarah; and Daisy, married Rolands Thomas, of 
New York. 

Jean Cxregg, daughter of Andrew and iVIartha 
(Potter) Gregg, was born February 17, 1791, and 
died March 14, 1854. She was married in 1814, to 
Roland Curtin, who was born in Ireland, in 1764, 
and died at Bellefonte, Pa. He was educated in 
Paris, and narrowly escaped the guillotine during the 
Reign of Terror. After coming to Pennsylvania, he 
settled at Philipsburg, Centre county, Pa., and later 



THE BARD KLNSHIP 329 

at INIilesburg, where he became a merchant. He was 
chosen coroner of Centre county, in 1803, and sheriff, 
in 180G. With Moses Boggs, he erected a forge at 
Eagle Works, in 1810, of which he became sole 
owner, in 1815; in 1818, he built Eagle furnace. He 
bought the Antes grist and saw mills, at Curtin 
station, in 1825, and erected the rolling mills there, 
in 1830. 

Issue : 

1. Andrew Gre<^g Curtin, of whom presently. 

2. Constans Curtin, was a physician. He was married to 
Mary A. . After his death his widow married Gen- 
eral James Irvin. 

3. Martha M. Curtin, married Dr. William Irvin, of whom 
presently. 

4. Ellen Honora Curtin, married Dr. William Henry 
Allen, son of Jotham and Thankful Allen, of the Aliens of 
Braintree, Mass. He was born March 27, 1808, and died 
August 29, 1882. He was president of Girard College, 1850- 
62. She was his second wife. 

5. Margery Curtin, married Thomas R. Reynolds. 

6. Marv J. Curtin, married Dr. Clark. 

7. Julia Curtin, 

Roland Curtin was twice married. He was married (1) 
November 25, 1800, to Margery Gregg, daughter of 
John Gregg, a half brother to Senator Andrew Gregg. 
She was born in 1776, and died January 15, 1813. 
Issue : 

1. Austin Curtin, was born August 26, 1801, and died 
July 27, 1871. 

2. James Curtin, was born September 18, 1806, and 
died January 5, 1873. 

3. Roland Curtin, was born September 2, 1808, and 



330 THE BARD FAMILY 

and died August 15, 1875. He was married to Eliza 
Irvin, daughter of John and Ann (Watson) Irvin. Issue: 
John Irvin, Austin, Andrew Gregg, and William. 
4. John Curtin, was born September 24, 1810. He was 
married January 3, 1837, to Julia Barnhart, daughter 
of Henry Barnhart. She was born March 14, 1811. 
Issue: James B., Harry R., John G,, Margery I., mar- 
ried General John I. Curtin, and Sarah C, married Dr. 
J. F. Larimer. 

Juliana Gregg, daughter of Andrew and IVIartlia 
(Potter) Gregg, was born June 26, 1797, and died 
July 4, 1856. She was married September 24, 1822, 
to James Irvin, son of John and Ann (^Vatson) Irvin, 
of Linden Hall. He was born February 18, 1800, and 
died at Hecla, the home of Colonel Andrew Gregg, 
November 28, 1862. He began business as a grain 
merchant, but later purchased an interest in Centre 
furnace. In the same year, 1832, he was chosen 
major-general of the 10th Division, 1*. M. In 1837, 
in conjunction with General AYilliam Houston, he 
built Julian furnace, so named in compliment to his 
wife. He was a representative in Congress, 1841 45. 
In 1847, he w^as the Whig candidate for Governor of 

CHILDREN OF JOHN AND ANN (WATSON) IRVIN 

I. James Irvin. 
•2. William Irvin. 
3. John Irvin. 

k Lot W. Irvin. 

5. George W. Irvin, died young. 

6. Susan Irvin, married (1), Thomas Duncan; (-2), James Potter. 

7. Margaret Irvin, married Andrew Gregg. 

8. Nancy Irvin, married Dr. Benjamin Berry. 

9. Mary Irvin, married Moses Thompson. 

10. Elizabeth Irvin, married Roland Curtin, Jr. 

II. Sarah Irvin, married Captain W. Wilson Potter. 



THE BAKU KINSHIP 331 

Pennsylvania, but was defeated by Francis II. Shunk. 
His iron interests were extensive, including Centre 
furnace; JMill Creek, 1845-62; Mercer Iron Works, 
at Greenville; Monroe furnace, 1849-55; AVashing- 
ton furnace, 1852 57 ; INIartha furnace, 1854-57; and 
Julian, Hecla and Hopewell. General Irvin was 
married (2), January 1, 1859, to ^Irs. Mary A., 
widow of Dr. Constans Curtin. Slie died at Hart- 
ford, Conn., August 4, 1878. He had no children by 
either wife. 

Andrew Ciregg, son of Andrew and Martha 
(Potter) Gregg, was born November 30, 1799, and 
died, at Milesburg, Pa., May 15, 1869. He engaged 
in the iron business and was a business partner in 
the JNIilesburg Iron Works, with Dr. AVilliam Irvin 
and General James Irvin. He served in the Pennsyl- 
vania State Senate. Colonel Gregg was married to 
Margaret Irvin, daughter of John and Ann (Wat- 
son) Irvin. 

Issue : 

1. John Irvin Gregg, of whom presently. 

2. Martha Gregg, was born May 14, 1828. She was mar- 
ried December 2, 1851, to Dr. John B. Mitchell. 

3. Ann E. Gregg, was born August 11, 1830. 

4. Andrew Gregg, was born September 11, 1832; he is 
deceased. 

5. James P. Gregg, was born October 7, 1834, and was 
killed in front of Petersburg, September 30, 1864. 

6. Julia Gregg, was born October 28, 1836. 

7. Susan Gregg, was born June 5, 1839. 

8. Mary Jane Gregg, was born June 25, 1841. 

9. Margaret Gregg, was born May 27, 1844. 



332 THE BARD FAMILY 

Matthew Duncan Gregg, son of Andrew and 
Martha (Potter) Gregg, was born April 5, 1804, and 
died at Potomac furnace, I^oudon county, Va., July 
27, 1845. He was a prominent business man of 
Huntingdon county, Pa., for a number of years, but 
removed to Loudon county, Vn., where he engaged 
in the iron business. Mr. Gregg was married to Ellen 
INIcMurtrie, daughter of David and Martha (Elliott) 
McMurtrie. She was born January 3, 1802, and died 
August, 1847. 

Issue : 

1. Martha Gregg, deceased, was married to Richard R. 
Bryan. 

2. Andrew Gregg, died in 1851. 

3. David McjNIurtrie Gregg, of whom presently. 

4. Mary Gregg, was married to G. Dorsey Green, of Bar- 
ree P\)rge, Huntingdon county, Pa.; they afterwards removed 
to Centre county, where they are now living. 

5. George Gregg, died in California. 

6. Ellen Gregg, died in Centre county, Pa. 

7. Henry H. Gregg, was born March 19, 1840, He was 
educated at Milnwood Academy, and was graduated at Dickin- 
son College. He was in the military service during the Civil 
War, and rose to the rank of major. He lives at Joplin, Mo., 
and is extensively engaged in lead mining. 

8. Thomas J. Gregg, was born October 8, 1842, and died 
in Cahfornia. He was in the miHtary service during the Civil 
War and rose to the rank of captain. He afterwards entered the 
U. S. army, from which he retired with the rank of major, 
becoming cashier of a bank at Hueneme, Ventura county, Cal. 
Major Gregg was married to Elizabeth McKnight, daughter of 
Robert and Elizabeth O'Hara (Denny) McKnight. Their chil- 
dren were Martha McM., Ellen McK., and Alice M. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 333 

Eliza Carothers, daughter of Samuel and Ruth 
(Elliott) Carothers, was married (1), to Charles 
Hunter, and (2), in 1846, to Joseph Markle Thomp- 
son, son of Andrew Finley and liCah (INIarkle) 
Thompson. Mr. Thompson was born near Washing- 
ton, JMason county, Ky., August 20, 1822, and died 
at Uniontown, Pa. He was left an orphan in his 
infancy, his father dying when he was only three 
years old and his mother surviving her husband for a 
very brief period. After tlie death of^both his parents, 
he was taken to INI ill Grove, A\'estmoreland county. 
Pa., where he was reared by his grandmother, Mary 
(Rothermel) INIarkle. After her death, in 1832, he 
lived with his cousin. General Cyrus P. Markle, for 
eighteen years. While living with General Markle, 
he worked on the farm, at the paper mill and in the 
store, selling goods, keeping books and performing 
the many and diversified occupations that naturally 
devolved upon him in such a busy and enterprising 
environment. In April, 1850, he purchased part of 
the Walters farm, in Redstone township, Fayette 
county, Pa., two miles from New Salem, where he 
lived until the following September, when he ac- 
quired a place better suited to his needs, in Menallen 
township, two and one-half miles from Uniontown. 
On the latter farm he was engaged in farming and 
stock-raising until 1862, when he was appointed 
Collector of Internal Re\'enue, for the Twenty-hrst 
District, of Pennsylvania, the largest internal revenue 
district in the state, outside of Pittsburgh and Phila- 
delphia. He was afterward appointed receixer of com- 
mutation monev, for the same district, and in this 



334 THE BARD FAMILY 

capacity collected and paid over to the Government 
over $450,000, in addition to some $2,000,000 collected 
as internal revenue. In one day he collected over 
$100,000 whiskey tax. He held two commissions 
under President I^incoln for over four years, resign- 
ing both places, in 1866. He was one of tlie original 
stockholders of the First National Bank, of Union- 
town, upon its organization, in 1863, and an original 
member of its Board of Directors. He became 
president of the bank, in 1870, a position that he 
held until his death. In 1873, he was nominated as a 
Republican candidate for the l^egislature, from P^ay- 
ette county, but hesitated to accept the nomination, 
as it was thought there was no chance of electing a 
Republican from that county, which usually gave 
1,000 Democratic majority. He was finally induced 
to accept the forlorn hope and was elected by a 
majority of 1,031 over his Democratic opponent. 
Colonel Alexander J. Hill. He was chosen a presi- 
dential elector, on the Republican ticket, in 1872. 
INIr. Thompson was a member of the first Board of 
Directors of the Union and AVest A^irginia Railroad 
Company, and, after the resignation of G. A. Thom- 
son, he was elected president of the road. He was 
also president of the Uniontown Building and I^oan 
Association, from its organization, and contributed 
greatly by his energy and enterprise to the success 
of the association, which, under his administration, 
had a capital of $200,000. He was one of the 
founders of the Fayette County Agricultural Asso- 
ciation and was its president from its organization. 
He was a life-long member of the Presbyterian 



THE BARD KINSHIP 335 

Churcli, of Uniontown, and was a ruling elder in the 
church for many years. He was a commissioner from 
Redstone Presbytery to the General Assembly of 
the Presbyterian Church, which met at Albany, N. 
Y.,in 1868, and he again sat in the Genera] Assembly 
at the meeting in Madison, A Vis., in 1880. He was a 
director of the Western Theological Seminary, of the 
Presbyterian Church, at Allegheny City, Pa. In his 
youth, he had meager educational advantages, his 
schooling being confined to the limited curriculum of 
the public schools, but he devoted the spare hours of 
the daytime and most of the night, not devoted to 
sleep, to the acquisition of knowledge from books, 
and he became recognized as a man of wide and ex- 
tensive reading. 

Issue : 

1. William M. Thompson, of whom presently. 

2. Josiah V. Thompson, of whom presently. 

3. Ruth E. Thompson, married Dr. J. T. Shepler. 

4. Leona M. Thompson, married J. A. Niccolls. 

The Thompsons are descended from the old Thomp- 
son family, of Cecil county, Aid. Mr. Thompson''s 
great-grandfather, Thomas Thompson came into Penn- 
sylvania and settled within the bounds of the old 
Slate Ridge Presbyterian Church, near Delta, in Peach- 
bottom township, York county. In 1759, he removed 
to what w^as then Hamilton township, Cumberland 
county, Pa., now St. Thomas township, Franklin 
county, bringing with him his certificate of membership 
in the Slate Ridge Church to the Presbyterian Church 
at Rocky Spring. East of the village of St. Thomas, 
in Franklin county, on the turnpike leading from 
Chambersburg to Bedford, was a part of the early 



336 THE BARD FAMILY 

Thompson plantation. He did not obtain a warrant for 
the tract on which he built his dwelling'-house until March 
27, 1767 ; the survey was made January 8, 1768. It 
contained 225 acres, 142 perches and allowance. On 
the west, toward the present village of St. Thomas, was 
vacant land, and south and southwest were other lands 
of Thomas Thompson. Near the eastern extremity of 
the tract, what is now known as l)ixon"'s Run, a con- 
fluent of Back creek, flowed through the plantation. 
It was on this farm that the old Thompson dwelling 
house was built. It was a plain wooden structure, which 
is still standing but not inhabited. Mr. Thompson 
acquired other lands in the neighborhood, his holdings 
at one time comprising 640 acres. The lands outside 
of the homestead went to his sons, Alexander and 
Sanmel. The homestead became the property of his 
daughter, Margaret, who married ^Villiam Archibald, 
and it is now the property of her grandson, William V. 
Archibald. Mr. Thompson died in 1782, his wife, 
Martha, surviving him. They were buried in a grave- 
yard laid out on the homestead, which is still preserved. 
Their children were Alexander, Samuel, Mary, Joseph, 
William, Margaret, and George. 

William Thompson, son of Thomas and Martha 
Thompson, served with Captain AVilliam Rippey''s 
company, of the 6th Pennsvlvania battalion, in the 
second Canada expedition. About 1780, he removed to 
Westmoreland county, Pa., where he was active in re- 
pelling the sanguinary incui'sions of the Indians, on the 
western frontier. After the Revolution he went to 
Kentucky and died there. Mr. Thompson was married 
to Mary Jack, daughter of John Jack, and grand- 
daughter of James and Elizabeth Jack, early settlers 
in the Conococheague \ alley. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 337 

Andrew Finley Thompson, son of William and Mary 
(Jack) Thompson, was born in Mason county, Ky., in 
1791. He became a soldier in the war of 1812 and was 
taken prisoner at the sin-render of Detroit, by General 
Hull, in August, 18152. After his release, he made his 
way on foot from Detroit to Westmoreland county, Pa., 
where he afterward married Leah Markle, daughter of 
Gaspard Markle, a pioneer of western Pennsylvania. 
She was not only Gaspard Markle\s youngest daughter 
but the youngest of twenty-two children. Upon his 
mairiage, Mr, Thompson took his bride to Mason 
county, Ky., where he lived until his death. 



V 



^^r^ILLIAM WILSON POTTER, son of James 
^ ^ and JNIaria (^Vilson) Potter, was born at Pot- 
ter's Mills, March 8, 1819, and died July 22, 1884. 
He was educated at the academy of the Rev. David 
Kirkpatrick, at ^Nlilton, Pa. He first engaged in 
merchandizing and milling with his father, and after- 
wards he was for many years agent of the Pennsyl- 
vania railroad at Bellefonte. JNlr. Potter was married 
February 6, 1844, to Sarah Irvin, daughter of John 
and Ann (Watson) Irvin, of Linden Hall. 

Issue : 

1. John Irvin Potter, was born at Potter's Mills, November 
23, 1844. He became freight agent of the Pennsylvania rail- 
road at Bellefonte in 1888. 

2. George Latimer Potter, of whom presently. 

George Latimer Potter, son of James and JNIaria 
(Wilson) Potter, was born February, 1824, and died 
August 2, 1879. He studied medicine and began the 
practice of his profession at Bellefonte in 1849. He 
attained high rank as a physician. Dr. Potter was 
married to Thamasine Harris, daughter of James 
Harris, of Bellefonte. She was born September 1, 
1821, and died September 10, 1876. 

Issue : 

1. James Harris Potter, of wliom presently. 

2. George Latimer Potter, of whom presently. 

3. Linn Potter, was born August 21, 1859, and died 
August 22, 1860. 

(338) 



THE BARD KINSHIP 339 

4. Marv Ann Potter, was born August 19, 1850, and died 
June 20, 1897. She was married to John C. Miller, and had 
Charles Harris. 

5. Lucv Maria Potter, was born September 17, 1852. 

6. Thamasine T. Potter, was born Pebruarv 4, 1866. 

Thomas Burnside Potter, son of John and Amelia 
(Burnside) Potter, was born at Potter's Mills, Novem- 
ber 21, 1829. He was prepared for college at the 
Lewistown Academy and was graduated at Prince- 
ton. After leaving college he studied medicine and 
was graduated M. D. at the Medical Department of 
the University of Pennsylvania in 1851. He began 
the practice of his profession at Stormtown, Half 
Moon Valley, Centre county, but afterwards estab- 
lished himself permanently at Philipsburg. In 1875- 
76, he was vice-president of the Centre County Medi- 
cal Society. He was surgeon of the 77th Regt., Pa. 
Vols., in the Civil AVar. Dr. Potter was married (1), 
February 14, 1854, to Mary E. Myers. She died 
May 13, 1869. He was married (2), April 8, 1878, to 
]Mary E. McMullen. 

Issue by his first wife: 

1. Harry Melville Potter, was born June 7, 1855, and died 
August 7, 1855. 

2. John Elmer Potter, was born July 16, 1857, and died 
March 15, 1858. 

3. Dudley Blanchard Potter, was born September 14, 1860, 
and died August 4, 1879. 

4. William Myers Potter, was born March 27, 1863, and 
died October 9, 1899. He was married May 15, 1888, to 
Rachael M. Steiner, and had a son. 

5. Mary Elizabeth Potter, was born May 13, 1869, and 
died December 9, 1869. 



340 THE BARD FAMILY 

James Xavier Mcl^anahan, son of William and 
Mary (Gregg) ^IcLanahan, was born near Green- 
castle, Pa., in 1809, and died in New York City, 
December 16, 1861. He received his preparatory 
education at a school in Hagerstown, Md., and was 
graduated at Dickinson College in 1826. After leav- 
ing college he studied law with Andrew Carothers, in 
Carlisle, and later with George Chambers, in Cham- 
bersbin'g. He was admitted to the Franklin County 
Bar, January 11, 1880. He soon obtained a lucrati\e 
practice, and was a leader at the Bar for a quaiter of 
a century. Mr. Mcl^anahan began his political career 
in 1841. In that year he was elected a member of 
the State Senate, serving one term, 1842 45. He 
was a Representative in Congress, 1849-.58. His suc- 
cess in Congress was so marked that he was made 
chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House 
in his second term. Previous to the organization of 
the Thirty-second Congress he was urged to become 
a candidate for the speakership, but he declined. 
After his retirement from the Bar he removed to 
New York City. He was a man of imposing figure 
and courtly address. He possessed a voice of unusual 
compass and power, and he held a distinguished place 
as an orator. Mr. INIcLanahan was married in 1848 
to Jane McBride, daughter of James McBride, a linen 
merchant of New York. 

Issue : 

1. George McLanahan. 

Andrew Gregg Curtin, son of Roland and Jean 
(Gregg) Curtin, was born at Bellefonte, Pa., April 



THE liARl) KINSHIP 341 

22, 1815, and died October 7, 1894. He was educated 
under the Rev. Dr. Kirkpatrick, at INIilton. He began 
the study of the law with Wilham W. Potter, at 
Bellefonte, and later pursued his studies at Dickinson 
College, under Judge Reed. He was admitted to the 
Centre County Bar in April, 1837. He at once took 
a high place in the profession, his abilities before a 
jury being especially conspicuous. He took a deep 
interest in politics from the beginning of his career at 
the Bar. In 1840 he was active in the Harrison 
campaign and he stumped the state for Henry Clay, 
in 1844. He was chosen a presidential elector in 
1848, and in 1852 his name was again on the AVhig 
electoral ticket. In 1854 he was chairman of the 
state central committee and managed the campaign 
of James Pollock for Governor with great ability. 
In recognition of his services Governor Pollock ap- 
pointed him Secretary of the Commonwealth. In 
this position he was ex-officio State Superintendent 
of Public Schools, and it was in the administration of 
the new school law of 1854 that his most important 
work was accomplished. During his term of office, 
and upon his recommendation, the present system of 
State Normal Schools was established. 

Mr. Curtin was nominated as the Republican can- 
didate for Governor in 1860. He was also a delegate 
to the Republican National Convention of that year. 
His opposition to William H. Seward in the conven- 
tion, on the ground that Seward's candidature would 
endanger his own election, was an important factor 
in the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the presi- 
dency. The contest in the state was an animated one. 



342 THE BARD FAMILY 

Curtin spoke in nearly every county, and everywhere 
attracted large audiences and roused great enthusi- 
asm. He was elected by a majority that exceeded 
the most sanguine expectations of his friends. So 
successful was he as the War Governor of Pennsyl- 
vania that he was reelected in 1863 by a satisfactory 
inajority. 

The two acts of Governor Curtin's administration 
that gave him most renown were the organization of the 
famous Pennsylvania Reserves, in 1861, and the estab- 
lishment of the Soldiers' Orphans' Schools. So arduous 
were his labors that before the close of his first term 
his health was seriously impaired, and in 1864 his life 
was despaired of; in November, by the order of his 
physicians, he went to Cuba for the winter. In 1867 
he was a candidate for the United States Senate and 
in 1868 he was warmly supported in the Republican 
National Convention for tlie ^^ice-Presidency. In 
1869 President Grant appointed him Minister to 
Russia. Twice before he had been offered foreign 
missions, once by President Lincoln, and later by 
President Johnson. Before leaving for St. Peters- 
burg, he was accorded a public reception in Inde- 
pendence Hall by the councils of Philadelphia, and 
given a banquet at the Academy of Music unsur- 
passed as a manifestation of popular affection. He 
returned from Russia in August, 1872. 

Mr. Curtin was a member of the Pennsylvania 
Constitutional Convention of 1873, and he was a 
Representative in Congress, 1881 87, as a Democrat. 
His politics had changed, and he died estranged from 
the party of which he was one of the founders. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 343 

In person Governor Curtin was tall and command- 
ing; his eyes were blue, his hair a dark auburn, and 
his head was broad and massive. Before a public 
audience he was persuasive and inspiring. 

Mr. Curtin was married INlay 30, 1844, to Catharine 
Irvin Wilson, daughter of Dr. William I. and JNIary 
(Potter) Wilson. She was born January 17, 1821. 

Issue : 

1. William Wilson Curtin. 

2. Mary W. Curtin, married Ur. George F. Harris. 

3. Jennie Curtin, married Dr. William H. Sage. 

JNIartha JNI. Curtin, daughter of Roland and Jean 
(Gregg) Curtin, was born August 29, 1819, and died 
August (J, 1880. She was married in 1836 to William 
Irvin, son of John and Ann (Watson) Irvin. He was 
born at I^inden Hall, November 15, 1805, and died of 
Asiatic cholera at Amoy, China, September 9, 1865. 
He was educated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, and 
was graduated M. D. at Jefferson Medical College, 
Philadelphia, in the same class with Dr. Pancoast. 
He practiced his profession in Bellefonte until 1836, 
when he removed to Milesburg Iron Works, where 
he engaged in business with his brother James and 
Andrew Gregg. He lived at Carlisle, 1842 50, and 
was in the iron business at Washington Furnace, 
Clinton county, 1853 62. In the latter year he was 
appointed' to a clerkship in the Second Controller's 
office, Washington, D. C. In 1864 he went to China 
as Consul at Amoy. 

Issue : 

1. Roland Curtin Irvin. 



;U-t 'llIK HARD FAMILY 

John Irviii Circi»o', sun of Aiulivw and Margaret 
(Irvin) Cirei>g, was born at Hcllctbnte, l*a.. July 19. 
1S*2(), and died at Lewisbur^'. Pa. He volunteered as 
a private tor the Mexiean AVar in Deeeniber. lcS4(). 
and beeanie first heutenant in tlie 11th l\ S. Infan- 
try, February. 1S47, and eaptain. September 5. 1847. 
After the war he eniiaoed in tlie iron business in 
Centre eonnty. Pa. He beeanie a eaptain in the Penn- 
sylvania Reserves at the beiiinnini;- of the Civil \\^n\ 
but was made eaptain in the ()th I', S. Cavalry in 
May, 18(>1. He beeanie eolonel of tlie KJtli Pennsyl- 
vania Cavalry in Oetober, lcS(i*i. and eommanded a 
eavalrv brigade in the Army of the Potomae from 
April. 1S(»»S. tc) April. 1S().5. He was severely wounded 
at Deep Bottom. For oallant and meritorious ser- 
viees durini*' the war. he was breveted major general 
of \H)lunteers anil brigadier general, W S. army. After 
the war he was inspector general of freedmen in 
Louisiana and beeame eolonel of the Sth W S, Caxalry 
under the establishment of July 'JS. 18(58. He was 
with his regiment on tlie Paeifie eoast till retired for 
disability ineurred in the line of duty. April 2. 187l>. 
Cieneral Ciregg was twiee married. 

l)a\ id MeMurtrie (iregg, son of ^Litthew Dunean 
and FJlen (MeMurtrie) Ciregg, was born at Huntino- 
don. Pa.. April 10. 18,S;i. He was oraduated at the 
I'. S. Military Academy at West Point in 18.5,5 and 
was assigned to the dragoons, receiving his full ap- 
pointment as second lieutenant in September, 18.5;5. 
After a short ser\ ice in Jeflerson Barracks, Mo., he 
served in \ew Mexico and California in the cam- 
])aign against the Indians. 18.58-(U). In !\Lircli. 18(>1, 



• rilK HAKl) KINSIIir iHF) 

lie was appointed first lieutenant, and in May follow- 
ing' eaptain in the (Jth Cavalry. In .January, 18G2, 
he was appointed eolonel of the 8th Pennsylvania 
Cavalry, and w^as engaged at the hjittle of Kair Oaks 
and the seven days fight in the reninsular eanipaitjfn. 
He l)eeanie l)rigadier general of volunteers, Novem- 
ber 21), 18()iJ, and eonnnanded a division of eavalry in 
the ^Vrmy of the l^otoniae, serving in the Stojienian 
raid, in the (Tettyshurg campaign, and at Mine Kun 
in tlie A\^ilderness eanipaign and in front of Peters- 
burg. He eonnnanded the ea\ airy of the Army of the 
Potomac from August, 18()4-, until his resignation in 
February, 18().5. He was breveted major general of 
volunteers, August 1, 18()4. He was appointed 
United States Consul at Prague, Bohemia, by Presi- 
dent (irant, in February, 1874, but resigned, .July, 
1874. He was chosen conmiander of the Pennsylva- 
nia Commandry, Military Order of the TiOyal TiCgion, 
and w^as elected Auditor Cieneral of Pennsylvania, 
November 8, 181)1. (ieneral (Tregg was married to 
Ellen F. Sheaff', ol' IJeading, Pa. 



Issue 
1. G. 
i2. David McMiirtrie (iivuu;. 



1 . (ieoi'ge (irej^;^ 



William M. Thompson, son of .Jasper Markle and 
Ehza (Carothers) Thompson, was born in Union- 
town, Pa. He received his rudimentary education in 
the connnon schools of his native place, subsequently 
attending .Jefferson College, at Canonsburg, from w^hich 
institution he was graduated in 1871. After leaving 
college he undertook the management of his father's 



846 THE BARD FAMILY 

farm of six liundred acres, and, by the exercise of 
intelligent and progressive methods, achieved notable 
success in agricultural pursuits, attaining recognition 
as one of the representative men of his section. 

Josiah X. Thompson, son of Jasper JNIarkle and 
Eliza (Carothers) Thompson, was a native of Union- 
town, Pa. After obtaining a preliminary education, 
he entered Jefferson College, at Canonsburg, like his 
elder brother, W'^illiam JNI. Thompson, and was grad- 
uated with the class of 1871, of which his brother 
was also a member. On the completion of his studies, 
he entered the service of the First National Bank, of 
Uniontown, of which he became teller in 1872. He 
evinced a marked aptitude for tlie banking business 
and remained identified with those interests, becoming 
cashier of the First National Bank in 1877. Upon 
the death of his father, he became president of the 
bank. Recognized as a leading and representative ad- 
herent to Republican principles, he was a candidate for 
the Republican nomination for Governor of the state 
in 1906, and in the canvass preceding the convention 
showed elements of great strength and wide popu- 
larity. He was twice married. 

Issue by his first wife: 

1. Andrew A. Thompson. 

2. John R. Thompson. 



VI 



GEORGE EATIMER POTTER, son of Wil- 
liam Wilson and Sarah (Irvin) Potter, was born 
at Potter's INI ills, April (>, 1847, and died at Belle- 
fonte. Pa. He studied at the academy at Lawrence- 
ville, N. J., at the Pennsylvania State College, and 
at Washington and Jefferson College. After leaving 
college he read medicine for one year, but abandoned 
his intention of becoming a physician to take up the 
work of his father, who had met with an accident. 
In 1874 he engaged in the insurance business at 
Belief on te. Among the heirlooms in his possession 
was the British Hag captured at JNIonmouth by his 
ancestor, INIajor William Wilson. JNIr. Potter was 
married June 21, 1876, to Elizabeth J. Sanderson, 
daughter of W. C. Sanderson. 

Issue : 

1. Marguerite Potter, born July 29, 1877. 

2. Sarah Irvin Potter, born March 14, 1883. 

Mrs. Potter is a descendant of the famous Indian scout, 
Robert Covenhoven. 
James Harris Potter, son of Dr. George Latimer 
and Thamasine (Harris) Potter, was born at Belle- 
fonte. Pa., January 14, 1855. He is extensively 
engaged in the wholesale hardware trade at Belle- 
fonte. Mr. Potter was married January 16, 1879, to 
Mary Somerville. 

Issue : 

1. Donald Somerville Potter, born April 7, 1881. 

(347) 



348 THE BARD FAMILY 

2. Thaniasine Harris Potter, born May 11, 1883. 

3. Jannet Harris Potter, born October 30, 1890. 

George Latimer Potter, son of Dr. George Lati- 
mer and Thamasine (Harris) Potter, was born at 
Bellefonte, Pa., December 28, 185G. He became gen- 
eral manager of the Baltimore (Sc Ohio Raih-oad at 
Baltimore. Mr. Potter was married to Susan French. 

Issue : 

1. Harris Potter. 

2. Louisa French Potter. 



POK 



^Ill EDMUND T. BEWLEY, of Dublin, in his 
'^ "Family of Poe, or Poe," traces the ancestry of 
the Poes, of Ireland, to Anthony Poe, of the INIanor 
Papplewick, Northamptonshire, England. Papple- 
wick was in the neighborhood of Newstead, the seat 
of the Byrons, and adjoined Sherwood Forest, of 
which the Byrons were stewards and wardens since 
1485, Richard Poe was under-keeper of Newstead 
and Blydeworth, under Sir John Byron, in 1591. 
This Richard Poe was the only child of Richard Poe, 
eldest son of William Poe, both of Horringham. 
William Poe's will was dated July 15, 1557, and his 
son Richard's May 31, 1564. Besides Richard, Wil- 
liam Poe named two other sons in his will — Edmond 
and Thomas. 

The Manor of l^applewick was granted by Letters 
Patent to Sir John Byron, father of the Sir John, un- 
der whom Richard Poe was under-keeper. May 28, 
1540. Anthony Poe, yoeman, was one of the tenants 
of Papplewick when he made his will in January, 
1605-06. He was a grandson of William Poe, of 
Horringham (Hoveringham), and a son either of 
Edmond or Thomas Poe. Dr. I.,eonard Poe, to whom 
many pedigree-mongers imputed the ancestry of the 
Poes, of Ireland, was his kinsman, probably his 
nephew, according to Sir Edmund Bewley. In that 
case, James Poe, of Poesfield, in the County of Derby, 
was his brother. This theory is demolished by Dr. 

(:u;t) 



350 THE BARD FAMILY 

Leonard Poe's burial certificate, from which we learn 
that James Poe, his father, was a son of Richard 
Poe, of Poesfield, Derbyshire. Richard Poe, son of 
William, of Hoveringham, Notts, had only one son, 
Richard the under-keeper. The Poes of the comities 
of Nottingham and Derby were, no doubt, kinsmen, 
but the data at hand is too meager to establish a 
closer relationship. 

Anthony Poe, of Papplewick, died before 1612. 
The name of his wife, who survived liim, was Alice 
Frost. She was probably the mother of his children. 
His sons were AVilliam, John, Thomas, Richard and 
Anthony, and his daughters were Alice, Anne and 
Elizabeth. Three of these sons, AA'^illiam, Thomas 
and ^Vnthony, went to Ireland at the Plantation of 
Ulster. John, the second son, was given the unex- 
pired lease of his father's homestead. Of Richard 
notliing lias been learned, but he may have been the 
Richard Poe, who was married in the parish of New- 
ark-on-Trent, June 9, 1631, to JMary Laurence. 

William I'oe, eldest son of Anthony Poe, of Pap- 
plewick, was an interesting character. He went to 
Ireland, at the Plantation of Ulster, with I^eonard 
Blennerhassett. Among his early acquisitions of lands 
in Ireland was five balliboes or townlands, in ''the 
great proportion of Brade," which he obtained from 
Captain James JNIervyn, either in fee-simple or fee- 
farm. In 1628 he married his first wife, Frances, only 
daughter of John Sedborough, of JMount Sedborough, 
County Fermanagh. John Sedborough was a mem- 
ber of the family of Sedborougli at Porlock, in Som- 
ersetshire, and was one of the original undertakers in 



THE BAKU KINSHIP 351 

the Plantation of Ulster. Sedborough was allotted 
the lands known as " the small proportion of Latgir," 
otherwise Latgare, in the precinct of Clancally, now 
Clankelly, County Fermanagh, from King James I, 
May 12, 1613. To this grant he gave the name of 
the Manor of Mount Sedborough. Sedborough died 
about the time of Poe's marriage to his daughter 
Frances. In INIichaelmas term, 1628, Poe sued out a 
commission in the Court of Chancery, requiring cer- 
tain commissioners to inquire, with the aid of a jury, 
as to what breaches, if any, there had been of the 
condition as to alienation contained in the Letters 
Patent to John Sedborough. His professed object 
was to discover whether any disloyal subjects were in 
possession of lands that properly belonged to the 
Crown; but his real object was to obtain for himself 
a grant of the forfeited lands. Among those likely 
to be affected by Poe's proceeding was Stephen Allen, 
Esq., a man of position in the County Fermanagh, 
who had obtained title to a part of Mount Sed- 
borough. To prevent his title from being impaired, 
Allen joined with other tenants or sub-tenants of the 
estate in indicting Poe for the offense then known as 
common barratry. Poe was charged with being a 
public disturber of the peace, an oppressor and 
calumniator of the king's subjects, and a stirrer up 
of strife among them. The case was tried at the Fer- 
managh Assizes, in the spring of 1628-29, and Poe 
was acquitted by the jury. Notwithstanding his ac- 
quittal, Allen succeeded in preferring fresh charges 
against him for the same offense, and Poe was held 
for trial at the next summer assizes. Poe then made 



352 THE BARD FAMILY 

his way to England to seek royal favor and protection, 
in which he partly succeeded, and a legal contest fol- 
lowed that was very bitter on both sides. Poe was 
finally tried a second time and acquitted, while Allen 
was shown by a Chancery Inquisition to have ob- 
tained a grant from John Sedborough in fee without 
having taken the oath of supremacy. Allen charged 
Poe with forgery in obtaining the King's Letter. Poe 
was absent from Ireland from 1630 to 1637, but in 
the latter year, upon his return to Ireland, he was 
summoned to appear before the Star Chamber in 
London to answer for the alleged forgery. Poe was 
sent over to England for trial. The case was tried 
May 30, 1638, and he was found guilty of procuring 
counterfeit persons to personate men of value in seal- 
ing a bond for £200. He was held a prisoner in the 
King's Bench until 1642, when he was released and 
became a captain in the Parliamentary army. 

As an officer in the CWi\ AVar, XA'^illiam Poe was 
gi\ en command of a troop of horse, and he seems to 
have served in Cromwell's own regiment. He dis- 
tinguished himself at the battle of Melton Mowbray. 
In 1645, he was given command of 400 horse, but 
within the next year his troop suffered so heavily 
that it was reported as consisting of a captain, a 
lieutenant, two trumpeters, and three soldiers. In 
1647, Captain Poe offered to serve in Ireland, but 
money was scarce and there was no means of accept- 
ing his offer. He was advanced to the rank of major. 
After this he was engaged for some time on special 
service for the Committee for both houses of Parlia- 
ment and actively pursued a course half predatory 



THE BARD KINSHIP 353 

and half patriotic. Among those whom he harried 
was Sir James Stonehouse, who had bought vahiable 
lands of Sir John Byron, Lord Byron, of Newstead. 
In this connection it will be remembered that his 
early years were spent on the Byron estate, at Pap- 
plewick. Poe continued active in obtaining informa- 
tion against the recusants and delinquents for some 
years and continued to live in England imtil 1673. 

William Poe's first wife, Frances Sedborough, died 
within a few years of their marriage, and he was 
married a second time, in England, to a woman 
whose maiden name was Mary Jones. She was the 
widow of a knight whose name has not been ascer- 
tained. In the entry of her burial, at St. Giles, 
Cripplegate, I^ondon, she is called Lady Mary Poe. 
Upon his return to Ireland, after his long residence 
in England, William Poe began a suit, in ejectment, 
for the recovery of Mount Sedborough, claiming a 
conveyance from John Sedborough, but died, in 1678, 
before the case was determined. The claim seems to 
have been an exceedingly nebulous one. After Major 
Poe's death, his widow, Mary Poe, began proceedings, 
in chancery, for the recovery of the Sedborough 
manor, which was called, by her late husband. Manor 
Poe. In the answer of John Maine, son of Barbara 
(Sedborough) Maine, to the bill of Mary Poe, widow 
of William Poe, dated May 7, 1686, it was claimed 
that the Manor of Mount Sedborough was in- 
herited by Peter Sedborough, only son and heir of 
John Sedborough, by his first wife. Peter Sedborough 
died before the rebellion of 1641, and the manor 
descended to his daughter, Barbara, the mother of 



354 THE BARD FAMILY 

Jolin Maine. It does not appear that the Widow 
Poe succeeded in her effort to recover possession of 
Sedborough Manor. ^ViUiam Poe, of "Manor Poe," 
made a will, "considering my great age," dated May 
24, 1678, and proved December 8, 1682, with Mary 
Poe, the widow, as sole executrix. In this will, 
William Poe took himself seriously as a man of 
wealth and station, and remembered his nephews and 
nieces with small legacies that could never be paid. 
One of these bequests to his nephew Richard Poe, 
son of his brother Thomas, was especially curious. 
It was for "10 tates of my land when they are re- 
covered from the heirs of Hugh Lord Greenawley 
and Charles Balfour." AVhat it all means we can 
only surmise. Here was a man whose name is per- 
petuated in the Poe bridge, that spans the Poe river, 
now generally called the Fairy Water, above its con- 
fluence with the Strule, north of Omagh, in County 
Tyrone, but the application to which is forgotten. A 
Chancery Inquisition, taken at Newton- Stewart, 
County Tyrone, May 29, 1631, affords a key to the 
mystery. According to this inquisition, Bryan 
O'Neale and others, "meer Irish," held by demise 
from William Poe, assignee under Captain Jaines 
Mervyn, imdertaker of the great proportion of Brade, 
in Omagh barony. County Tyrone, the ballibo of 
land called JMuUaviny, etc., whereby "it is become 
forfeited " — that is to say, forfeited through being sub- 
let to mere Irish. Brade was originally granted to Sir 
Mervyn Tuchett, I^ord Audley's eldest son, by his 
first wife, Lucy, daughter of Sir James Mervyn, of 
Fonthill, Wilts. From him the title passed to his 



THE BARD KINSHIP 355 

sister, Christiana, who married Sir Henry Mervyn, 
of Petersfield, and from them it was inherited by 
Captain James Mervyn, who conveyed to Poe. 
Captain Mervyn died without issue and the title now 
went to Sir Audley Mervyn, M. P., for Tyrone, and 
from him to his son, Henry Mervyn, who married 
for his second wife, Susanna, I^ady Clanawley, daugh- 
ter of Sir WilHam Balfour. It would be tedious to 
follow the forfeitures, surrenders and regrants that 
finally brought Poe's purchase under the shadow 
of the Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, near where Lord 
Audley, the first Earl of Castlehaven, died in 1617, 
into the possession of Hugh Lord Glenawley and 
Charles Balfour. This Hugh Lord Glenawley was 
Hugh Hamilton, son of Malcolm Hamilton, Arch- 
bishop of Cashel. The Clanawley and Glenawley peer- 
ages, of Ireland, are distinct, the former having be- 
longed to the Balfours and the latter to the Hamiltons. 
Both are extinct, the one expiring in 1634, and the 
other in 1680. I^ord Glenawley obtained his title to the 
Poe land by purchase from John L^ssher,who inherited 
from his father. Sir AA^illiam Ussher; Sir William had 
bouffht them from Sir Pierce Crosbie. Crosbie ob- 
tained them through his wife, who was the widow of 
Lord Audley. Sir Pierce Crosbie was a son of Pat- 
rick Crosbye, of Queens county, who had the ward- 
ship and marriage of Thomas Beard, of Colte, son and 
heir of \A^illiam Barde or Beard, who had a grant of 
Maryborough, from Queen Elizabeth. The origin of 
the Charles Balfour claim is not easy to trace after more 
than two centuries of forgetfulness. Even Poe bridge 
is a tantalizing reality that affords little aid in span- 



356 THE BARD FAMILY 

ing the Fairy ^Vater of defective titles that Wilham 
Poe, of "Manor Poe," found so bewitching. 

Thomas Poe, third son of Anthony Poe, of Pap- 
plewick, went to Ireland as a retainer of Thomas 
Blennerhassett, who was an undertaker of 2,000 acres 
of land in the barony of Lurg, County Fermanagh, 
during the Plantation of Ulster. He started in Ire- 
land with a brave showing of leases, for he obtained 
from Blennerhassett a lease of the tate of Letterbuy, 
and the half-quarter of Edernagh, containing two 
tates in Edernagh and Dromchime. According to 
an inquisition taken at Crevenish, April 4, 1G27, he 
had not taken the oath required from the assignees or 
lessees of the undertaker or grantee. This probably 
resulted in the end in the surrender of his leases. In 
an inquisition in 1680, or before, his arms were 
reported as a sword and snaphance. Later, 1637-4'3, 
he was a grazier at Donegal, County Donegal, and 
was extensively engaged in buying and selling cattle. 
AVhen the great rebellion of 1641 broke out, Poe 
took service in the Parliamentary army and served as a 
lieutenant until the insurrection was suppressed. After 
the outbreak he was robbed of all his personal estate, 
valued at £3,360 — a very large sum in those days. In 
the deposition made by him, September 19, 1643, for 
the purpose of proving the injuries he sustained, he 
is described as " Thomas Poe, of Killeene, in the 
County of Donegal, Esq." In a bill in chancery, filed 
by him in December of the same year, against Daniel 
Hutchinson, of Dublin, for the recovery of a debt, 
his place of residence is given as "Donegal, County 
of Donegal." He finally settled at Cloghan, a village 



THE BARD KINSHIP 357 

and post-town in the parish of Callen, barony of 
Garry Castle, Kings county. 

\Vhen the allotment of lands to the soldiers and 
adventurers came to be made, I^ieutenant Thomas 
Poe obtained a grant by I^etters Patent, dated March 
2, 1667 68 (20 Charles II), for Killownie, 11.5 acres 
profitable, and 62 acres unprofitable ; part of Cappah 
West, called Lislane. 16 acres profitable, and 50 acres 
unprofitable; and part of Knockgiltygranane, 88 
acres profitable, and 70 acres unprofitable ; a total of 
219 acres profitable, plantation measure, and 3.55 acres 
statute measure, all in Upper Ormonde barony, 
Coimty Tipperary. He also obtained by purchase 
382 acres of land, plantation measure, in Xenagh 
parish. Lower Ormonde barony, County Tipperary, 
which he owned at the time of his death. His will 
was dated December 19, 1683, showing that, like his 
brother William, he lived to be a very old man. 

Anthony Poe, youngest son of Anthony Poe, of 
Papplewick, seems to have gone to Ireland about the 
same time as his brothers William and Thomas. He 
settled on the Mervyn estate, in County Tyrone. 
Nothing is known of his doings before the breaking 
out of the civil war in England. He served for many 
years in the Parliamentary army as a lieutenant, and 
having attained the rank of captain, was sent over to 
Derry in Ireland, with one hundred and fifty men in 
1648. He served until the close of the Irish rebellion 
and then settled down at Skreene, County JNIeath, 
where he died in 1654. His will was made January 
10, 1653-54, and proved May 12, 1654. In his will 
he speaks of a grant of which he evidently was then 



358 THE BARD FAMILY 

ill expectation for his arrears of pay in these words : 
" Sons Daniel and Antliony, both minors, lands that 
I have or should have from the Commonwealth." 
He also mentions " arrears due in England," that he 
bequeathed to his daugliter jNIary. Provision was 
made in 1652, allowing officers of the army to be- 
come adventurers for lands on the same terms with 
men from civil life luider the act of 1G42, generally 
called the Act rates. But the adventurers were first 
to be settled with before the forfeited estates could 
be free for disposal by the Parliament to the army, 
and besides, the native Irish were to be transplanted 
into Connaught, one of the tragedies of history, or 
transported over sea to serve as soldiers in other 
lands. Captain Poe died during the consequent delay 
in the settlement of his claim and it was not until 
after the restoration that his widow and heir obtained 
the grant that he was expecting. Tliese assimiptions 
are proved by the names of his widow and his children 
Daniel, Anthony and Mary being found among the 
certificates for ad^enturers, soldiers, etc. (membrane 
62, roll xi, and ms. 64 and 65, roll xxix), and of his 
widow and eldest son among the certificates of the 
Court of Claims of Innocents, No. 40. bundle v. 
That his services were considered important, perhaps 
involving his death, is shown by a grant of Drum- 
goolstown of 447 acres of land, statute measure, June 
18, 1667, to Mary Poe, widow, and Daniel Poe, son 
and heir of Anthony Poe, gent., and a further grant 
of 48 acres, March 24, 1670, to Mary Poe, probably 
the daughter and legatee of arrears in England. 
Drumgoolstown is a village in the parish of Stra- 



THE BARD KINSHIP 359 

bannon, barony of Ardee, County I^outh, four miles 
from Ardee, on the road to Castle Bellingham. Part 
of the first grant was on the north side of the river 
Atherdee and the other in Athilent. This estate was 
afterward known as Poe's Court. 

John Poe, second son of Anthony Poe, of Papple- 
wick, and his father's testamentary heir, is only known 
to us through the provision of his father's will and 
the mention of him in the will of his brother. Major 
William Poe, who speaks of Ann Hide, daughter to 
his brother, John Poe, and Ann, her daughter. 
Whether he remained on the paternal holding in 
Papplewick, went into Ireland or emigrated into the 
province of Maryland, has not been ascertained. 

There was at least one other Poe, in Ireland at 
the Plantation of Ulster, who has not been identified 
with the Poes of Papplewick, but who was probably 
of the same stock. This was Edward Poe, a retainer 
of James Mervyn at the same time with \Villiam 
Poe, afterwards of ""Manor Poe," so-called. He was 
probably identical with the Poe who married Anne 
(Mansfield) Goodwin, widow of Robert Goodwin, 
and daughter of John Mansfield, who was son and 
heir of Captain Ralph Mansfield, an English under- 
taker in the precinct of I^ifFord, barony of Raphoe, 
County Donegal, at the Plantation of Ulster. Cap- 
tain Mansfield owned the manor of Killerguerdon, 
now Killygordon, on the road from Stranolar to Stra- 
bane. Robert Goodwin was M. P. for Londonderry 
city in 1634. Mrs. Anne Poe was again a widow 
in 1662. 

More than a century later was David Poe, of 



360 THE BARD FAMILY 

Dring, in the parish of Kildallon, County Cavan, who 
is especially interesting to Americans because he was 
the ancestor of Edgar Allan Poe. David Poe may 
have been a descendant of William Pew, whose name 
is found in connection with the ownership of half a 
tate of land in Donagh parish, County Monaghan, in 
1660. At that time William Poe, of "Manor Poe," 
was still in England, after his long service in the 
Parliamentary army, ready to welcome Charles II 
back to the throne of the Stuarts. Sir Edmund T. 
Bewley, in his " Family of Poe, or Poe," evinces a 
commendable earnestness in trying to solve the prob- 
lem of the poet's ancestry. That David Poe, of 
Dring, was Edgar Allan Poe's great-great-grand- 
father is unquestionable. The poet's father and 
grandfather were both named David, but these are 
the only instances of the use of the name in America. 
Neither General David Poe's uncle, Alexander Poe, 
of JMarsh Creek, or any of his sons, nor any of "Gen- 
eral" Poe's brothers, or any of their sons, ever named 
a child David. It is not a family name with the 
Poem's in the United States. When the eminent Irish 
genealogist had traced the poet's ancestry back to 
David Poe, of Dring, he could find no thoroughfare 
beyond. Expecting to be guided by David as a 
family name, he could discover no other David Poe 
in Ireland. In his search he uncovered the Poes, of 
Clonfeacle, a comparatively modern family of spin- 
ners and linen weavers. An examination of the public 
records revealed the fact that the Poes, of Clonfeacle, 
spelled their name not only Poe, but Poel, Pole, 
Pooel, Poole, Powel, Powell, Powle and Pul. There is 



THE BARD KINSHIP 361 

something sardonic in the suggestion that the family 
of Edgar Allan Poe spelled his name with as many 
variants as were used by William Shakspere. These 
variations led to an excursion among the Powells, of 
England and Ireland, with the result that it was 
found that Jonathan Powell and David Powell 
served in one of the regiments of the Parliamentary 
army for suppressing the Rebellion of 1641. After 
his marriage, in 1719, another Jonathan Powell, son 
of Arthur Powell, of the parish of Armagh, County 
Armagh, settled at Corr, in the parish of Drumlane, 
County Cavan, which adjoins the parish of Kildallon, 
in which Dring is situated. From this, it is assumed 
that Jonathan Powell, of Corr, and David Poe, of 
Dring, were brothers. These genealogical deductions 
are almost as weird as one of Edgar Allan Poe's 
Tales of the Arabesque. 

David Poe, of Dring, was a tenant-farmer on the 
estate of the Maxwell family, now represented by 
Lord Farnham. At the present time the townland of 
Dring contains 180 a., 3 r., 19 p., statute measure, of 
which 12 a., 2 r., 37 p. are under water. Between 
1720 and 1731, he was a number of times one of the 
overseers of the parish of Kildallon, and at the same 
period he was a member of the parish vestry. In 
1741, he entered into the customary marriage bond 
of his son, John Poe, with Jane McBride, of Dru- 
mully parish. County Fermanagh. His will was made 
August 25, 1742, and proved September 22, 1742. 
In his will he named his wife, Sarah ; his daughter 
Anne, wife of Archibald Scott; his son, Alexander, 
then in America; Mary Cowan, and his son, John. 



362 THE BARD FAMILY 

Alexander Poe, elder son of David and Sarah Poe, 
of Dring, emigrated to Pennsylvania before 1739. He 
was an early settler on the Manor of Masque, in what 
is now Adams county, Pa., his claim for his land dating 
back to April, 1739. He was to receive £5 sterling 
under his father's will, if he returned to Ireland with- 
in six years, but he remained on his Pennsylvania 
farm until his death, about 1787. His will was proved 
in York county, March 24, 1788, and that of his 
wife, Margaret, January 28, 1789. He had a son, 
John Poe, and three daughters : Sarah, wife of James 
Marlin ; Mary, who married (1) David Peden, and (2) 
Archibald Findley ; and Margaret, wife of Thomas 
Ormond. What became of John Poe has not been 
ascertained. The Findleys removed to Indiana 
county, Pa., and one of their sons, Alexander, mar- 
ried Catharine Deemer. It is an interesting fact in 
this connection that Diemer Bard, younger son of 
the Rev. David 'and Elizabeth (Diemer) Bard, was 
one of the witnesses to the will of JNIartha Find- 
ley, of Wheatfield township, Indiana county, Pa., in 
1819. 

John Poe, younger son of David Poe, of Dring, 
received at his marriage one-third of his father's 
holding and under the will of his father as much 
more as would make up the half, being the fourth 
part of Dring, together with ten head of sheep and 
the one-half of all tackling belonging to the plow. 
This shows that David Poe's holding was only one- 
half of the Dring farm. In 1749, John Poe emi- 
grated to America with his family. As it is said that 
he first came to Pennsylvania, it is probable that he 



THE BARD KINSHIP 363 

spent some time on his brother Alexander's farm on 
the Manor of Masque. Later he removed to Cecil 
county, Md. Mr. Poe, was married in Ireland in 
1741, to Jane McBride, who, it is believed was a 
daughter of the Rev. Robert McBride, for many 
years Presbyterian minister at Ballymoney, and a 
sister of John McBride, an admiral in the royal navy. 
He died about 1756, and his wife in 1802. Their 
children were David, George, Jean, Mary and 
William. 

David Poe, the eldest son of John and Jane (Mc- 
Bride) Poe, was born at Dring, parish of Kildallon, 
County Cavan, Ireland, in 1742, and died at Balti- 
more, Md., October 17, 1816. He began life as a 
wheelwright in Baltimore. As a young man he was 
very active in fomenting the Revolution. He is 
credited with being the leader of the mob that ousted 
Robert Christie, the provincial sheriff, and with being 
concerned in the attack upon the printing office of 
William Goddard, the libeller of Washington. He 
was appointed quartermaster at Baltimore, November 
19, 1777, and served during the war. When he 
grew to be an old man he was always called General 
Poe. After the Revolution, General Poe became a 
merchant in Baltimore, and was very successful. Mr. 
Poe was married to P'Jizabeth Cairnes, of Pennsyl- 
vania. She died July 7, 1835. His children were 
David, Maria, and perhaps others. Maria lf*oe was 
born March 12, 1790, and died February 16, 1871. 
She was married July 13, 1817, to AVilliam Clemm, 
and had a daughter, Virginia, who became the wife of 
her cousin, Edgar Allan Poe. 



364 THE BARD FAMILY 

David Poe, son of David and Elizabeth (Cairnes) 
Poe, was born at Baltimore, Md., about 1786, and 
died about 1811. He was intended for the legal pro- 
fession and began his studies in the office of William 
Gwynn, Esq., but becoming enamored of a young 
English actress, a widow, he eloped with her and was 
disowned by his father. He adopted the stage as a 
profession, but was not a brilliant actor. He was 
married, in 1805, to Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins, widow of 
C. D. Hopkins, an actor, who was the daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Arnold, singers of repute, at Covent Garden 
Theatre, London. She was brought to the United 
States by her mother and, as Miss Arnold, became a 
favorite with American audiences. She died De- 
cember 8, 1811. Their children were William Henry 
Leonard, Edgar Allan, and Rosalie. William Henry 
I^eonard Poe was born in February, 1807, and died 
in July, 1831, and Rosalie Poe was born in 1810, and 
died, unmarried, July 21, 1874. 

Edgar Allan Poe, second son of David and Eliza- 
beth (Arnold) Poe, was born January 19, 1809, and 
died October 7, 1849. He was married May 16, 1836, 
to his cousin, Virginia Clemm, daughter of William 
and Maria (Poe) Clemm. She was born August, 
1822, and died January 30, 1847. She had no children. 

George Poe, son of John and Jane (McBride) Poe, 
was baptized at the Croghan Presbyterian C'imrch, 
which was situated near the town of Killeshandra, 
and about three and a-half miles frojn Dring, July 31, 
1744. He was married to Katharine Dawson, and 
was the father of Judge Neilson Poe, and the grand- 
father of John P. Poe, attorney-general of Maryland. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 365 

William Poe, son of John and Jane (McBride) 
Poe, was probably born in Cecil county, Md., and 
died in Georgia, in August, 1805. He removed to 
Georgia in 1789-90. He was married to Frances 
Winslow. Their children were Robert Forsyth, Ma- 
tilda, William and Wasliington. Mrs. Frances (Wins- 
low) Poe was a niece of Mrs. Forsyth, the mother 
of the Hon. John Forsyth, and she was a great-grand- 
daughter of Captain Harry Beverly, of Beverly Park, 
\^a. Robert F. Poe was married to Eliza White, and 
had one daughter and one son. His daughter was 

married to Bixby, and was the mother of R. 

F. P. Bixby, a New York millionaire, and of Grace 
Bixby, wife of Count Mankowski, of Kensington, 
London. A grandson of Robert F. Poe died, aged 
twenty-two, three weeks before he would have been 
graduated from the University of Georgia. Matilda 
Poe died of yellow fever, at Savannah, Ga., in 1827. 
She was married to Joseph Cumming, and had 
William Henry, Mary Cuthbert, Montgomery and 
^^^allace. It is said of Joseph Cumming that when he 
asked the consent of his father, Thomas Cumming, 
to his marriage with Matilda Poe, he received for his 
answer: "Yes, my son, but you are not worthy of 
her." William Henry Cumming was a medical mis- 
sionary to China, and a linguist, scholar and physician. 
He was married to a Miss McDowell, or McDonald, 
and had Montgomery, Annie and Charles. Mary Cuth- 
bert Cumming was married to Thomas E. Nesbet, 
and had a daughter, Hattie, now Mrs. E. D. Latta, of 
Dilworth, Charlotte, N. C. Wallace Cumming had a 
daughter (Mrs. Houston) and a son, Wallace. 



366 THE BARD FAMILY 

William Poe, son of William and Frances ( Winslow) 
Poe, had seven children: Thomas, who had a daugh- 
ter, Susan ; Ellen, wife of Dr. Symmes ; Nannie, 
wife of D. D. Sloan; Joseph T., who married Nola 
Taylor; Nelson, who married Nannie Crawford; 
Harris, who married Miss^ Sloan ; and Francis AVins- 
low. Washington Poe, the youngest son of William 
and Frances (Winslow) Poe, was a public-spirited 
citizen and a man of high character. He was married 
to Salina Shirley Norman, who died in 1896, in her 
84th year. Their children were Oliver, Mary (Mrs. 
JNIoore), and William. 

An early Pennsylvania Poe was Patrick, who died 
in Bucks county, leaving a large family of children, of 
whom nothing is known to the present writer. 

There were German families in Berks and Lan- 
caster counties, who spelled their name Poh, but the 
only noteworthy German Poes in this country are 
descendants of George Jacob Poe, who settled in 
Washington county, Md. George Jacob Poe died in 
Frederick county, INId., in 1766. He emigrated from 
Germany before 1742, and settled on the Antietam in 
Frederick, now Washington county, Md. He owned 
a plantation on the west side of the creek, in what is 
now the Leitersburg district, before 1748-49. He 
obtained an order for the survey of the adjoining 
tract of 100 acres, February 10, 1748, which was 
named "Well Taught," and patented July 4, 1749. 
Mr. Poe obtained warrants for a resurvey of "Well 
Taught" in 1752, the patent for which, dated March 
14, 1754, embraced 1,300 acres, and included the site 
of Leitersburg. Much of the survey was on the east 



THE BARD KINSHIP 367 

side of the Antietam. He sold all his land except 362 
acres in 1755. Poe obtained another warrant for a 
survey of other lands on the west side of the Antietain 
in 1761, but the next year he sold the site of Leiters- 
burg and assigned his interest in the resurvey of 
"Well Taught" to Jacob Inciter, the ancestor of the 
well-known Inciter family, into which I^ord Curzon of 
Kedleston married. I^ater he purchased land on Fish- 
ing Creek, Frederick county, JNId. He was murdered 
by one of his teamsters on the road to Baltimore. 
His children were George, Andrew, Kate and Adam. 

George Poe was born in Germany about 1737. 
He inherited the Poe homestead near Jefferson, in 
Frederick county, Md. In the Revolution he remained 
loyal to the crown. His son George was born near 
Jefferson, October 7, 1791, and died near Leiters- 
burg, Md., February 11, 1869. He was married to 
Catharine Ziegler, daughter of George and Barbara 
(Beck) Ziegler; they had twelve children. His de- 
scendants are still represented among the old families 
of \¥ashington county, JNId. 

Andrew and Adam Poe were the celebrated Indian 
fighters, whose struggle with Big Foot in the Ohio 
river has become historic. To these brothers Scotch- 
Irish antecedents have often been attributed by 
American writers. 

Andrew Poe was born in Frederick county, iMd., 
September 20, 1742, and died in Greene township, 
Beaver county. Pa., July 15, 1823. He is known 
among his descendants as Capt. Andrew Poe. He 
was married January 15, 1780, to Elizabeth Rutan, a 
native of Essex county, N. J. She was born Septem- 



368 THE BARD FAMILY 

ber 25, 1758, and died in Beaver county, Pa. They 
had eleven children. The extant family among his 
descendants is represented by his son, Adam Poe, who 
was born in Beaver county, Pa,, April 4, 1791, and 
died January 5, 1859. He Mas popularly known as 
Deacon Adam Poe. He was married to Elizabeth 
Laughlin, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Simpson) 
Laughlin, of Beaver county, Pa. Many of his de- 
scendants live at Ravenna, O. 

Adam Poe was born at sea in 1745, and died in 
Stark county, O., September 23, 1838. After the 
Revolution he settled in ^^^ayne township, Columbi- 
ana county, 0.,and in 1812 removed to Stark county. 
He was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Cochran, the 
widow of a settler who was killed on the Ohio river. 
She was born in Ireland, February, 1756, and died 
December 27, 1844. They had three sons, Thomas, 
David and Andrew. Andrew Poe was born in \^^ash- 
ington county. Pa., November 12, 1780, and died in 
Stark county, O., August 12, 1851. He was married 
to Nancy Hoy, a native of York county. Pa., who 
was born June 6, 1779, and died March 29, 1865. 
They had twelve children. Of these, his son, Charles 
Poe, who was born in Columbiana county, O., Sep- 
tember 26, 1807, and died in Coshocton county, De- 
cember 14, 1852, was married to Susanna Warner, a 
native of Fort Loudon, in Franklin county. Pa. She 
was born November 5, 1813, and died March 31, 
1881. She was the mother of the late Major General 
Orlando Metcalfe Poe. 



^T^HOMAS POE, whose ancestry has not been 
-*- estabhshed, was born early in the eighteenth 
century, and died in Antrim township, Cumberland, 
now Franklin county, Pa., in 1770. All the circum- 
stances attending his emigration to Pennsylvania, and 
his family affiliations and associations, after his settle- 
ment, point to Ireland as the country of his nativity. 
That he sprang from the family of Anthony Poe, of 
Papplewick, is a reasonable conjecture. So far as is 
known, there never was any other Anglo-Irish Poe 
family. As regards the unattached Poes, as Sir 
Edmund Bewley called those for whom he found no 
place, they were few in number, and their immediate 
families have long been extinct in Ireland. As to the 
Clonfeacle Poes, if the Bewley Powell theory has any 
validity whatever, they were never Poes at all. Cer- 
tainly men like John Poe, of Maryland, Alexander 
Poe, of the Manor of Masque, and Thomas Poe, of 
Conococheague, would never have called themselves 
Poe if their name had been Powell. As to Anthony 
Poe, of Papplewick, the descendants of two of his 
sons, if any, have not been accounted for. Of Richard 
Poe, of Papplewick, nothing is known except his 
probable marriage. Of the descendants of John Poe, 
Anthony's testamentary heir, except that he had a 
daughter, Ann Hide, our knowledge is equally 
meager. It is not known that he had any sons and it 
is not known that he had not. It is not known that 

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370 THE BARD FAMILY 

he ev^er went to Ireland, and it is not known that he 
did not go. As to Sir Edmund T. Bewley's unsuc- 
cessful search of the Hearth Money Rolls, in the most 
likely places, for Poes, it has no significance. They 
would be most likely to be found in the most unlikely 
places. The printed pedigree of Captain Anthony 
Poe, of Skreene, is unsatisfactory and probably in- 
complete. Only Major William Poe, of "Manor 
Poe," can be eliminated from the account, because it 
is known that he had no sons. 

In his "Family of Poe or Poe," Sir Edmund T. 
Bewley says : " Lieutenant Thomas Poe seems also 
out of the question, as we have — as will be seen by 
Pedigrees A and B — very full information as to his 
sons and their issue." 

An examination of the Pedigrees shows that they 
are far from complete. Of the seven sons of Richard 
Poe, of Belleen, eldest son of I^ieutenant Thomas 
Poe, of Cloghan, we have a genealogical account of 
the descendants of only one — his second son, Edward 
Poe, of Belleen. His other sons- — Thomas, the eldest, 
and John, Anthony, Richard, William and Robert — 
are only names. It is not known whether any of 
them married, or whether they died sine prole. 
Thomas, the eldest, and, indeed, any one of these 
miglit have been the father of Thomas Poe, of Cono- 
cocheague. 

In America, the name is pronounced as if spelled 
Po, and a similar pronunciation seems to have been 
used by the family in England, but in Ireland it 
has the sibilant sound, Poey. The use of the French 
accent indicates French origin. If the Poes were of 



CHART OF THE FAMILY OF RICHARD POE, OF BELLEEN 

f Thomas Poe 
Mercy Poe 
Ann Poe 
Elizabeth Poe 
Susannah Poe 
Sarah Poe 
Samuel Poe 

V Edward Poe 



Richard Poe . 

Of Belleen, Co. 
Tipperary, son 
of Captain 
Thomas Poe, 
of C 1 o g h a n ; 
married 



Thomas Poe 

Edward Poe . . 
Of Belleen, mar- 
ried Mary or 
Mercy, daugh- 
ter of Richard 
Waller. 

John Poe 

Anthony Poe 



"^; Richard Poe 
William Poe 
Robert Poe 
Elizabeth Poe 
Arabella Poe 
Jane Poe 
.Mary Poe 



/•Richard Poe . . 
Of Belleen, d , 
March 1.5. 1782: 
married Susan- 
nah, daughter 
of John Kings- 
ley. 

Edward Poe . . 
Of Limerick, mar- 
ried (l) Hester 
Sargent. 



Married (2) Mary, 
daughter of 
Herman Jacobs. 



(Edward Poe 
I Thomas Poe 
lElizabelh Poe 



Herman Jacobs 

Poe 
Mercy Poe 
Mary Poe 
Christian Poe 
Charlotte Poe 



THE BARD KINSHIP 



371 



continental antecedents they may have come to Eng- 
land in the path of the Conqueror. Their settlement 
in Nottinghamshire goes back a long period before 
the Plantation of Ulster. 

It is not definitely known when the ancestor of the 
Poe family, of the Conococheague, came to Pennsylva- 



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'P'Cte- 


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Old Poe Mansion — The South Wing 

nia, but it was probably before 1741. The tradition 
is that Thomas Poe, the emigrant, and John Potter 
came to Antrim township, then in Lancaster county, 
in 1746. Poe obtained a warrant for his plantation, 
October 9, 1750, and a warrant for a smaller tract 
was dated the same day to Potter. Poe's tract, m hich 
began on the Conococheague, on the north, and ex- 
tended along the (Guilford township line to the east- 



372 



THE BARD FAMILY 



ward, forming a V at its southern extremity, em- 
braced 568 acres and 40 perches and allowance. It 
was surveyed by John Armstrong, D. S. A copy of 
the Armstrong draught, made for the Franklin 
county records by Emanuel Kuhn, is reproduced as a 
part of the draft of the Poe and Potter plantation. 

The stone mansion built by Thomas Poe is still 
standing in good condition. Tlie year of its erection 




Old Poe Farmhouse — Kast A'ievv 

is unknown, the tablet, in the south wall containing 
the date, having disappeared. It is a mansion of a 
type common among the gentry in Ulster after the 
Plantation, and often reproduced in Pennsyhania by 
Irish emigrants in the eighteenth century. The main 
part of the building is a square structure two stories 
in height, with a wing on the south of only a story 
and a half. The south wing was built first, in the 
lifetime of Thomas Poe, but wlien the main struc- 
ture was erected the whole edifice was made to 



THE BARD KINSHIP 373 

appear as if built simultaneously, as is shown by the 
archway on the east front, which unites the main 
building and the wing. This archway was, in itself, a 
feature of the mansion in the olden time, ^^^lether 
it was a broad doorway or an open entrance is a 
problem. I^iater, the archway was walled up at the 
sides, probably by JNIr. Frederick, to contract the 
space for the present doorway. The building, in its 
present condition, presents the appearance of a neg- 




The Poe Barn 

lected farmhouse rather than that of a colonial 
mansion. In the eigliteenth century and at the be- 
ginning of the nineteenth there was an imposing front 
on the northwest side of the house, facing the Cono- 
cocheague. The main farin building, built by Captain 
James Poe after the Revolution, is a typical Pennsyl- 
vania barn. 

Mr. Poe lived on his plantation until his death, 
and was a prominent man in Antrim township. He 
filled a number of local offices. He was one of the 



374 THE BARD FAMILY 

overseers of the poor in 1762, and he was serving as 
constable in 1770, the year of his death. In the 
Cumberhmd county record of his appointment to 
these offices his name is written Pow in one case and 
Pougii in the other. His will was probated in Cum- 
berland county, September 20, 1770, with William 
Duffield and Allan Killouoh as executors. He gave 
his only son, James, the plantation on which he lived, 
and to his daughter, Mary Long, a plantation in 
Hamilton township and a negro girl. To his wife, 
Mary Poe, he left, as special bequests, his negro 
woman, Nan, and a negro boy, Peter. His other 
daughters had apparently received their shares in his 
estate as advancements, for he gave Catharine Bard 
only £5 and Susanna Potter £lO. 

The name of Mr. Poe's wife was Mary. The tra- 
dition is that she was Mary Potter, a sister of Cap- 
tain John Potter. She died September 25, 1788. 

Issue : 

1. James Poe, of whom presently. 

2. Catharine Poe, married Richard Bard. (For her history, 
see sketch of Richard Bard in " Descendants of Richard Bard.") 

3. Susanna Poe, married Samuel Potter. (See sketch of 
Samuel Potter in Potter Family.) 

4. Marv Poe, married (1) Alexander Long; (!2) John 
McMullen, of whom presently. 



II 



TAMES POE, son of Thomas and Mary Poe, 
*^ was born in Antrim township, Lancaster, now 
Frankhn county, Pa,, April 15, 1748, and died June 
22, 1822. He was brought up as a farmer and fol- 
lowed that occupation all his life. As a young man, 
he served with Captain James Potter's company in 
the pursuit of the Indians that murdered Enoch 
Brown, the schoolmaster, and the children at Brown's 
school house, July 26, 1764. At the beginning of the 
Revolution he was a lieutenant in Colonel John Alli- 
son's battalion of Pennsylvania militia, which served 
under General Hugh Mercer, at Perth Amboy, X. J., 
in the autumn of 1776. He was a captain in Colonel 
Abraham Smith's battalion, Cumberland County As- 
sociators, 1777-79. He was in active service with a 
marching company in Colonel William Chambers' 
battalion of the third class, under the call of July 
28, 1777. His tombstone, in the Brown's Mill grave- 
yard, bears testimony to his services as a soldier of 
the Revolution. After the Revolution, Captain Poe 
held a number of important offices. He was county 
commissioner of Franklin county, 1785-87, and 
again, 1791-93 ; served in the Legislature, 1794-97 
and 1800-03, and represented Franklin county in the 
State Senate, 1811-19. In politics he was a Repub- 
lican. We have a glimpse of his party activity in the 
fact that he presided over a meeting to make Repub- 
lican (Democratic) nominations for Franklin county 

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376 THE BARD FAMILY 

at the house of George Steck, Chambersburg, August 
29, 1809. James Poe was an extensive landowner at 
the time of his death. His will was dated June 7, 
1822, and probated June 25, 1822. To his son, John, 
he gave the old Poe homestead; to Mary and Eliza, 
his Mifflin county lands on the Kishacoquillas, and 
lands west of the AUeghenies; and to Harriet and 
Susanna, his Centre county lands. All the shares 
were to be equalized. His executors were John Poe, 
James Potter (the Judge), Archibald Bard and 
David Fullerton, He named Bard, FuUerton and 
Robert Robison to determine the division line be- 
tween John and William; and James I'otter, Wil- 
liam Potter, Andrew Gregg and A^^illiam Irvin to 
value the lands devised to Mary, Eliza and Susanna. 
William Poe died without issue before the will could 
be carried into effect. Harriet Poe elected to take 
land in Potter township, Centre county, and Eliza 
the lands on tlie waters of the Big Mahoning, in 
Jefferson county; Mary, Eliza, Harriet and Susanna 
declined to take any other lands. 

Captain Poe's father, Thomas Poe, evidently re- 
garded his son as a "confirmed bachelor," for his will 
contained a provision that in case of James' death 
without issue his share in the estate should go to his 
sisters and their children. He was subsequently mar- 
ried to Elizabeth Cathcart Potter, only child of Gen- 
eral James Potter by his first wife, Elizabeth Cath- 
cart. She was born in 1767, and died September 11, 
1819. Without early educational adv^antages, Mrs. 
Poe became well versed in English literature, and 
she was noted as a brilliant conversationalist. She 



THE BARD KINSHIP 377 

rests by the side of her husband in Brown's Mill 
graveyard. 

Issue : 

1. James Poe, died unmarried, at Bellville, Mifflin county. 
Pa., and was buried on his farm at his own request. 

2. Thomas Poe, was born in 1786. He was graduated at 
Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., and became a civil engineer. 
He was deputy surveyor of Franklin county, 1809-13. He en- 
listed in Capt. Samuel Gordon's company, March 1, 1814, and 
marched from Loudon to Erie, where the company was attached 
to the 5th regiment. Col. James Fenton. Poe was made adjutant 
of the regiment. He was a man born to command. It is told 
of him that by the mere power of his presence he quieted an 
outbreak in camp, and by a word forced the men to go to their 
quarters. He was mortally wounded at the battle of Chippewa, 
July 25, 1814, and died the next day. 

3. John Poe, of whom presently. 

4. William Poe, died unmarried in 1834. 

5. Margaret Poe, married James Campbell, of whom pres- 
ently. 

6. Mary Poe, was married December 5, 1844, to Matthias 
Nead, of Chambersburg, Pa. She was his second wife; they 
had no children. 

7. Eliza C. Poe, died in 1834. She was married in 1833 
to Dr. Peter Fahnestock, of Pittsburgh, Pa. 

8. Harriet Poe, was born in 1796, and died unmarried, 
December 1, 1831. 

9. Susanna Poe, married Saumel Van Tries, of whom pres- 
ently. 

10. Charlotte Poe, was born in December, 1799, and died 
unmarried. May 23, 1819. 

Mary Poe, daughter of Thomas and Mary Poe, 
died October 4, 1818. She was twice married. Her 



378 THE BARD FAMILY 

first husband was Alexander l^ong, a farmer in Guil- 
ford township, Franklin county, Pa., near Marion. 
He was killed while returning with his team from 
Baltimore. She was married (2), to John McMuUen, 
son of Alexander Mc Mullen, an early settler in the 
Conococheague Valley. He died July 10, 1822. He 
was a farmer in Peters township, Franklin county. 
Pa. Mr. McMullen was a Rev^olutionary soldier. He 
served as a private in Capt. George Crawford's march- 
ing company of Col. James Dunlop's battalion, Cum- 
berland county militia, under the call of July 28, 
1777- He was also in service in Capt. David Shields' 
company, ordered to Standing Stone, in July, 1778. 
In 1790 he went to Indiana county, but was driven 
away by the Indians. He was a ruling elder of the 
Upper AVest Conococheague (Mercersburg) Presby- 
terian church from 1799 until his death. ' 

Issue by lier first husband: 

1. Mary Long, married John Speer, of whom presently. 

2. Agnes Long, married Archibald Rankin, of whom pres- 
ently. 

3. Catharine Long, married Thomas Waddell, of whom 
presently. 

Issue by her second husband : 

1. Alexander McMullen, of whom presently. 

2. James Poe McMullen. 

3. Thomas McMullen, was baptized August 5, 1790, and 
died September 1, 1803. 

4. Margaret McMullen, married William Waddell, of 
whom presently. 

5. Rachel McMullen, married Jeremiah Evans, of whom 
presently. 



Ill 



JOHN POE, son of Captain James and Elizabeth 
Cathcart (Potter) Poe, was born in 1796, and 
died December 25, 1862. He was not successful in 
the management of the large estate that he received 
under the will of his father. By an indenture dated 
April 7, 1843, he turned over his property to his 
brother-in-law, Samuel Xan Tries, of St. Thomas 
township, in trust for the payment of his debts and 
to secure the advances made by his wife. Even this 
failed to save the old Poe homestead, and by a deed 
dated March 30, 1844, John and Isabella Poe con- 
veyed the plantation to Mrs. Poe's sister, Maria Har- 
bison McElhare. Mrs. McElhare sold it to Samuel 
Frederick, April 3, 1848. It is now owned by John 
Poe's son, John E. Poe. After his failure Mr. Poe 
removed to Culbertson's Row, where he lived during 
the rest of his life. He was a large man with an 
impressive manner, and many stories are told of his 
eccentricities. Mr. Poe was married January 31, 1839, 
to Isabella Harbison, daughter of Adam and Martha 
Harbison, of Culbertson's Row. She was born No- 
vember 15, 1806, and died February 16, 1863. 

Issue : 

1. Thomas Harbison Poe, was born January 7, 1840, and 
died unmarried, October 19, 1859. 

2. James Potter Poe, was "born April 21, 1841, and died 
August 10, 1866. 

3. Isabella Marion Poe, was born November 13, 1843, and 



380 THE BARD FAMILY 

died September 21, 1888. She married Henry Stouffer, son of 
Henry and Marv (Flickinger) Stouffer. Issue: a daughter, 
Mary, married May 29, 1872, Landis A. Besore, and had Mary, 
Emma, Kate, Daisy, George and Alice. 

4. John Edgar Poe, of whom presently. 

5. Angeline Martha Poe, was born March 24, 1849. 

Margaret Poe, daughter of Captain James and 
Elizabeth Cathcart (Potter) Poe, was born December 
7, 1785, and died January 27, 1864. She was married 
to James Campbell, son of James and l^hanuel (Ran- 
nels) Campbell. He was born in 1785, and died 
July 19, 1855. He lived in the old Campbell home- 
stead, in St. Thomas township, built by his grand- 
father. He served in Davis' Mounted Rifles, under 
General Harrison, and was in the battles of Tippe- 
canoe and the Thames. After his return to his home, 
he marched with Captain Culbertson's company to 
the defense of Baltimore, in 1814. He was an exten- 
sive owner of real estate. 

Issue : 

1. Charles Thomas Campbell, of whom presently. 

2. Elizabeth Charlotte Campbell, married Arthur Camp- 
bell Chambers, of whom presently. 

James Campbell's father and grandfather were also 
James. James Campbell, his grandfather, was born in 
Scotland and was a captain of horse, of the house of 
Argyle, in the Rebellion of 1745. After the failure of 
the fortunes of the Pretender, he became a refugee and 
finally made his escape to America. He settled at the 
spring on the turnpike near St. Thomas, where he built 
the stone house still standing on the rocks above the 
spring. This was about 1750, the date of his deed 



THE BARD KINSHIP 381 

from the Proprietaries. He was married to Rebecca 
Brown, daughter of Thomas Brown, of Brown's Mill. 
She died March 23, 1778. Their children were Charles, 
Thomas, George, William, Michael, and James. Two 
of these sons, Charles and Thomas, were distinguished 
in the Revolution, as was also their brother, James. 
James Campbell, son of James and Rebecca (Brown) 
Campbell, was an officer of the Pennsylvania Line, in 
the Revolution. He entered the service as ensign in the 
1st Pennsylvania, May 30, 1779, and was promoted to 
be second lieutenant, July 18, 1780. He was retained 
in the arrangement of January 17, 1781, and served 
until the close of the war. After the Revolution he 
lived on the old Campbell homestead, near St. Thomas. 
He became an extensive landowner in western Penn- 
sylvania. He was married to Phanuel Rannals, daughter 
of John and Ruth (Brown) Rannals. She was his 
cousin. Their children were Charles, John, James, 
William and Sarah. 

Mrs. Campbell's father, John Rannals, died in Cham- 
bersburg, Pa., in 1786. He was appointed justice of 
the peace for Guilford township, then in Cumberland 
county, March 1, 1783, and was one of the first justices 
of Franklin county. , 

Susanna Poe, daughter of Captain James and 
Elizabeth Cathcart (Potter) Poe, died November 10, • 
1882. She was married February 1, 1837, to Samuel 
Van Tries, son of Abraham Van Tries, He was born 
at Shirleysburg, Pa,, in 1802, and died at Bellefonte, 
Pa., August 21, 1883, He spent his early life in 
Fulton and P^ranklin counties. While still a young 
man, he engaged in the manufacture of iron in the 
Big Cove, in Fulton county. Failing in his enter- 



382 THE BARD FAMILY 

prises, he lived for a while at St. Thomas, in Frank- 
lin county, but in 1843 removed to Penn's Valley, 
and in 1851 to Potter's Mills. At the latter place he 
remained sixteen years. He then went to Bellefonte, 
where his last years were spent. He was a member 
and for many years an elder of Sinking Creek Presby- 
terian Church. It is said of him that with all his 
other excellencies, he was a modest man. 

Issue : 

1. Thomas Campbell Van Tries, of whom presently. 

2, Louisa Van Tries, was born October, 1844. She was 
mari-ied to James R. Harris, a merchant of Philadelphia; they 
have one daughter, Eleanor. 

S. Geortre Latimer Van Tries, was born October, 1849. 
Abraham Van Tries was a successful merchant at Holli- 
daysburg, Pa., where he died in July, 1851. The family 
name of his wife was Miller. She was born in 1762, 
and died in 1860. Their children were Samuel, John 
M,, a physician; Henry Smith, and Matilda, wife of the 
Rev. James Sanks. 

Mary Long, daughter of Alexander and Mary 
(Poe) I^ong, died in Peters township, Franklin county. 
Pa., May, 1800. She was married in September, 
1796, to John Speer, son of James and Mary Speer, 
of Franklin township, Adams county. Pa. He died 
at Apollo, Armstrong coimty, Pa., at an advanced 
age. He was a brother of the mother of James 
Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States. 
From her father, Mrs. Speer inherited 400 acres of 
land in Guilford township, Franklin county. 

Issue : 

1. Alexander Speer, of whom presently. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 383 

2. James Speer, died September 21, 1801. 

Mr. Speer's father, James Speer, emigrated from County 
Tyrone, Ireland, in 1759, and settled in what is now 
Adams county, Pa. His home was in the Gap, in the 
South Mountain, eight miles northwest of Gettysburg. 
Early in life he was a Covenanter, but later he became 
a Presbyterian. He married his wife, Mary, in Ireland. 
His children were Nathaniel, Alexander, John, James, 
William and Elizabeth, wife of James Buchanan. His 
son, William, was a Presbyterian minister, and the an- 
cestor of the Speer family, of Pittsburgh, Pa. He was 
at one time pastor of the Falling Spring Presbyterian 
Church, Chambersburg, Pa. 

Agnes Long, daughter of Alexander and Mary 
(Poe) Long, was married March 9, 1790, to Archi- 
bald Rankin, son of Jeremiah Rankin, of Peters 
township, Franklin county, Pa. He was a county 
commissioner of Franklin county, 1804-06. 

Issue : 

1. Frances Rankin, was born in 1805, and died unmarried, 
February 12, 1827. 

Jeremiah Rankin was a son of James and Jean Rankin, 
who were among the early settlers of Peters township, 
afterwards Montgomery. James Rankin was a taxable 
in 1751; his children were William, Jeremiah, James, 
David, Ruth and a daughter, who married Sanmel 
■ Smith. Jeremiah Rankin served as a private in Captain 
John McConnell's marching company, of Colonel Abra- 
ham Smith's regiment, in service in 1778. His children 
were Jeremiah, David, James and Archibald. 

Catharine Long, daughter of Alexander and Mary 
(Poe) Long, died August 27, 1818. She was married 



384 THE BARD FAMILY 

in April, 1796, to Thomas Waddell, son of William 
and Elizabeth (Stockton) Waddell. He was born in 
Peters township, Franklin county, Pa., in December, 
1792, and died June 23, 1852. He was a private in 
Capt. Thomas Bard's company, that marched to the 
defence of Baltimore in 1814. On the 4th of July 
of that year he was appointed brigadier general of 
the Franklin county militia. He was a county audi- 
tor of Franklin county in 1822. 

Issue : 

1. Alexander Waddell, was married to Mary Erwiii, daugh- 
ter of James and Olivia (Bard) Erwin. (See Descendants of 
Richard Bard.) 

2. John Waddell, married Jane Allen. 

3. Thomas Waddell. 

4. William Waddell, of whom presently. 

5. Archibald Waddell, was born in 1811, and died Octo- 
ber 3, 1849. He was married to Maria Morrow, of McCon- 
nellsburg, Pa. 

6. James Poe Waddell, was born in 1815. He was mar- 
ried to Susan Flora, of McConnellsburg, Pa. 

7. Eliza Waddell, married Robert McKinnie, of whom 
presently. 

William Waddell, the ancestor of the Waddell family 
of Franklin county. Pa., was a brother of the celebrated 
blind preacher of Virginia. He served as a private in 
Capt. George Crawford''s company, of Col. James Dun- 
lop"'s marching battalion, Cumberland county militia, 
under the call of July 28, 1777. He was a ruling elder 
of the Mercersburg Presbyterian church from 1792 
until his death in September, 1830. He was married 
to Elizal)eth Stockton; they had two sons, Thomas and 
William. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 385 

Alexander McMullen, son of John and Mary 
(Poe) McMullen was born near Mercersburg, Frank- 
lin county, Pa., and died in Indiana county. Pa., in 
1863. He was reared on his father's farm. In 1814, 
when his brother, James P. McMullen, was drafted 
into the service of the United States, he volunteered 
in his brother's stead and served with Capt. Samuel 
Gordon's company, of Colonel Fenton's regiment, of 
which he was promoted to be a sergeant. He partici- 
pated in the battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane 
and was mustered out with his regiment at Albany, 
N. Y. In 1819 he removed to Indiana county and 
completed the improvements begim by his father in 
1790. The farm was named " Dargle" after the High- 
land home of the McMuUens. He was a county com- 
missioner of Indiana county and held other offices. 
Mr. McMullen was married February 15, 1816, to 
Catharine McKinnie, daughter of James and Eliza- 
beth (Bard) McKinnie. She died August 18, 1834. 
(For children see Descendants of Richard Bard.) 

Mr. INIcMullen was married (2), to Rebecca Camp- 
bell, a sister of Judge Joseph Campbell. 

Issue by his second wife: 

1. Alexander R. McMullen. 

2. Joseph C. McMullen. 

3. William Harvey McMullen. 

4. Sarah A. McMullen. 

5. Eva McMullen. 

6. Ellen McMullen. 

Margaret INIcMullen, daughter of John and Mary 
(Poe) McMullen, was born in 1784, and died July 2, 
1858. She was married November 27, 1800, to 



386 THE* BARD FAMILY 

William Waddell, son of William and Elizabeth 
(Stockton) Waddell. He was born in Peters town- 
ship, Franklin county, Pa., in 1774, and died Sep- 
tember 27, 1867. He was a farmer near Mercersburg, 
Pa. Mrs. Waddell was blind for eight years previous 
to her death. 

Issue; 

1. Mary Waddell, was born in 1801, and died unmarried, 
October 16, 1859. 

2. John Waddell, was born in 1803, and died in 1877. 
He was married to Margaret Lawrence, of Greencastle, Pa. 
His eldest son, William Lawrence Waddell, was born June 20, 
1837, and died at Mount Lawrence, Ohio, September 2, 1903. 
He enlisted in Company I, 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Sep- 
tember 4, 1861, as second lieutenant, and was chosen first 
lieutenant of Company K, same regiment, December 2, 1863. 
On April 22, 1864, he was elected captain of Company I, same 
regiment. He was breveted major, in 1865, and on July 16, 
1865, was mustered out of the service. He was a member of 
the Presbyterian Church, and of Joe Hooker Post, No. 21, G. 
A. R., of Mt. Vernon. Major Waddell was married March 30, 
1881, to Caroline White. The other children of John and 
Margaret Waddell were John Calvin, killed in the Civil War; 
Sarah, married David Grove, of Greencastle ; and Margaret 
(Mrs. Jennings), died at Springfield, Ohio, December 28, 1901. 

3. Catharine Waddell, was born in 1805, and died un- 
married. 

4. Elizabeth Waddell, was born in 1803, and died in 1875. 
She was married June 19, 1838, to John Richey, and had Mar- 
garet Speer and Mary. 

5. Nancy Rankin Waddell, was married to Alexander Gor- 
don; they had no children. 

6. Rachel Waddell, died young. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 387 

7. William Waddell, was born in 1811, and died July 29, 
1836. He was a farmer in Franklin county, and was killed by 
lightning. He was married to Catharine Miller, and had one 
son, William, who served in the Civil War, and was drowned 
in the Mississippi. 

8. Thomas Poe Waddell, was born in 1817; died young. 

9. Caleb Stockton Waddell, was born in 1819; died young. 

10. Frances Ann Waddell, was born in 1822; died un- 
married. 

11. Margaret Waddell, was married to George E. Smith, 
of Indiana county. Pa.; they had no children. 

12. Sarah Jane Waddell, was born June 24, 1827. 

Rachel McMullen, daughter of John and Mary 
(Poe) McMullen, was married to Jeremiah Evans. 

Issue : 

1. Mary Eliza Evans, was born in 1813. 

2. John McMullen Evans, was born in 1815. 

3. Mary Poe Evans, married John Bard, son of Thomas 
and Jane C. (McFarland) Bard. (See "Descendants of Richard 
Bard.") 



IV 



JOHN EDGAR POE, son of John and Isabella 
^ (Harbison) Poe, was born December 24, 1845. 
He is a farmer in Guilford township, Franklin 
county. Pa. He owns the old Thomas Poe home- 
stead. Mr. Poe was married December 17, 1874, to 
Anna Elizabeth Koler, daughter of Elias Koler. She 
was born October 23, 185G. 

Issue : 

1. Alice Myrtle Poe, was born June 12, 1875, and died 
June 2, 1879. 

2. Henry Franklin Poe, was born December 15, 1877. He 
was married in 1895, to Ida Gel wicks, daughter of John F. 
Gelwicks, who was a son of Frederick Gelwicks, of Guilford 
township. His children ai"e William, Hazel and Catharine. 

3. Enuna Elizabeth Poe, was born February 20, 1880. 
She was married March 17, 1898, to Jeremiah George, a de- 
scendant of Matthias George, an early German settler in Guil- 
ford township, Franklin county. Pa. 

4. Minnie Blanche Poe, was born November 6, 1881. 

5. Bruce Albert Poe, was born March 21, 1883. 

Charles Thomas Campbell, son of James and 
Margaret (Poe) Campbell, was born near St. Thomas, 
Franklin county. Pa., August 28, 1823, and died at 
Scotland, S. D. He studied at the Chambersburg 
Academy, a military school at Bedford, and Marshall 
College, Mercersburg, Pa. At the beginning of the 
war with Mexico, he was appointed a lieutenant in 
Company B, 11th Infantry, U. S. Army, and ser^ed 

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THE BARD KINSHIP 389 

with such distinction that he was made captain of 
Company A, in August, 1847. After his return from 
Mexico his mihtary ardor was very great, and he 
organized the Irwin Artillery, which was the feature 
of the. so-called military encampments that were so 
popular at that period. Captain Campbell was a 
member of the Pennsyh^ania House of Representa- 
tives in 1852. At the outbreak of the Civil War, 
Captain Campbell hurried away to Harrisburg with 
his battery, and such was his energy that within a 
month he had organized a regiment, the 1st Pennsyl- 
vania Artillery (43d Reg't., P. V.), of which he was 
made colonel. The regiment was attached to the 
Pennsylvania Reserves, Colonel Campbell acting as 
chief of artillery of the division. It was found im- 
practicable to keep the batteries together, and in 
March, 1862, he accepted the command of the 57th 
Pennsylvania A'olunteers, a rifle regiment in Kear- 
ney's Division of the Third Corps. He was severely 
wounded in the battle of Fair Oaks, and brought in 
at night as one of the dead. He was found to be 
alive, however, and soon rallied. In November, 1862, 
he was appointed a brigadier general just in time to 
be wounded even more desperately in the terrible 
encounter at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. 
Being too much shattered for service in the field after 
his recovery, he was given command of the Depart- 
ment of the Northwest, which he held until the gen- 
eral muster-out in January, 1866. After the Civil 
War, General Campbell made his home at Scotland, 
in South Dakota. Late in life he became editor of a 
newspaper. 



590 THE BARD FAMILY 

General Campbell was married October 1, 1850, 
to Fannie E. Bruce, daughter of Rev. Robert Bruce, 
of Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Issue : 

1. Norman Campbell, died, aged 22 years. 

2. Agnes Campbell, died, aged 19 years. 

Rev. Robert Bruce, Mrs. CampbelPs father, was born 
in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland, in 1776, and died at 
Pittsburgh, Pa., June 14, 1846. He was graduated at 
the University of Edinburgh in 1801, and studied 
theology in the Associate Hall, under Prof. A. Bruce. 
He was licensed by the Presbytery of Perth in 1806, 
and immediately "missioned" by the Synod to the 
United States, in company with Dr. Alexander Bullions. 
In 1808 he was installed pastor at Pittsburgh and 
Peter"'s Creek. He was president of the Western Uni- 
versity, 1820-43, and of Duquesne College, 1844-46. 

Elizabeth Charlotte Campbell, daughter of James 
and Margaret (Poe) Campbell, was married to Arthur 
Campbell Chambers, son of Arthur and Eleanor C. 
(Stockton) Chambers. He was born in 1822. They 
had no children. 

Arthur Chambers was a descendant of Rowland Cham- 
bers, an early settler in the Cumberland Valley, near 
Carlisle, where he died December 24, 1746. He was 
one of the commissioners appointed by the Lancaster 
county court, November 4, 1735, to lay out a road from 
the Susquehanna toward the Potomac. By his wife, 
Elizabeth, he had four sons: John, Arthur, James and 
Robert. The father and grandfather of Arthur Camp- 
bell Chambers were both Arthur. His father, Arthur 
Chambers, was born in 1770, and died September 25, 



THE BARD KINSHIP 391 

1838. He was a successful merchant at Mercersburg, 
and the owner of several good farms. He was married 
May 27, 1813, to Eleanor C. Stockton, daughter of 
Caleb Stockton, His wife died June 5, 1841. 

Thomas Campbell Van Tries, son of Samuel and 
Susanna (Poe) Van Tries, was born January 30, 1840. 
He was graduated M. D. at the Medical Department 
of the University of Pennsylvania in 1868, and 
practiced at Pennsylvania Furnace, Bellefonte and 
Blairsville. Dr. Van Tries was married November 5, 
1873, to Mary Jane Milligan, of Newport, Pa. She 
was born in 1840, and died May 10, 1896. 

Issue : 

1. Eleanor Van Tries, was born September'21, 1874, and 
died March 8, 1878. 

2. William Potter Van Tries, was born June 29, 1879. 

Alexander Speer, son of John and Mary (Long) 
Speer, was born at Stony Batter, Franklin county. 
Pa., and died in Washington, D. C, in 1854. He 
was a physician and began the practice of his profes- 
sion at Gettysburg before 1828; in that year he 
returned to Mercersburg and practiced there, 1828-41. 
He was a member of the first Montgomery township 
school board and was active in promoting the success 
of the new common school system. Through the 
influence of his cousin, James Buchanan, he was 
appointed to a position in the U. S. Treasury Depart- 
ment, Washington. Dr. Speer was married (1), to 
Margaret Windom, of Gettysburg, Pa. She died 
September 11, 1832. He was married (2), to Maria H. 
Coyle. She was born in 1798 and died April 25, 1839. 



392 THE BARD FAMILY 

Issue bv his first wife: 

1. Margaret Speer, baptized April 26, 1829. 

Issue bv his second wife: 

1. Alexander A. Speer. 

2. Maria Speer, married Chase Andrews. 

3. Elizabeth Speer. 

W^illiam Waddell, son of Tliomas and Catharine 
(Long) Waddell, died in 1830. He was married 
February 14, 1828, to Ruth Grubb, daughter of 
Josepli and Jane (McClelland) (irubb. She was born 
in 1803. 

Issue : 

1. Thomas Alexander \\'^addell, for many years a prominent 
citizen of Franklin county, Pa., but now decea.sed. 

2. Jane McClelland Waddell, baptized July 30, 1830. 

Eliza W^addell, daughter of 'i'homas and Catha- 
rine (Long) Waddell, was born in 1800, and died 
September 10, 18.5.5. She was married February .5, 
1824, to Itobert McKinnie, son of .Josiah McKinnie. 
He was born near Chureh-hill, Franklin county. Pa., 
May 31, 1795, and died April 6, 1882. He was left an 
orphan in his childhood and was brought up by his 
aunt, Elizabeth McKinnie. He inherited from his 
father a large tract of land and lived on his farm 
until 180.5, when he removed to Mercersburg, Pa. 
Mr. McKinnie was a typical Irish gentleman and a 
lover of the chase. 

Issue : 

1. Walter McKinnie, died Januai-y, 1826. 

2. Catharine Lon^ McKinnie, married Michael H. Keiser. 

3. Sarah Jane McKinnie. 

4. William A. McKinnie, was born February 2, 1831. He 



THE BARD KINSHIP S93 

lives at Greencastle, Pa., where he has been a justice of the 
peace since 1886. He was married February 6, 1856, to Mrs. 
Marv Jane Rhodes, daughter of Alexander and Margaret 
(Bard) McDowell, (see Descendants of Richard Bard). She was 
born in 1835 and died December 6, 1856. They had one son, 
Alexander, who died in infancy. Mr. McKinnie was married 
(2), February 2, 1861, to Mary Salome Trout; they had issue: 
William Waddell, Harold Austin, Maggie Bell, Mary Jane, 
Rose Edna and Bessie F. 

5. Josiah McKinnie. 

6. Marv Isabella McKinnie, married James W. Alexander. 

7. Margaretta McKinnie, married Archibald B. McDowell. 

8. Anna Maria McKinnie, married James E. Caiupbell. 

9. Rebecca Covle McKinnie, married Isaac Allison. 



COCHRAN 

^■^HE Cochran family, of Chester county, Pa., is 
-■- of Scotch-Irish origin, but was planted in Ire- 
land nearly half a century before the Plantation of 
Ulster. As a matter of course, Irish genealogists 
claim the Cochrans as ancient Irish, and point to 
Amruadh, grandson of Eile, the red king, as the 
founder of the family. As early as 1570, John Coch- 
ran, of Paisley, Ayrshire, Scotland, went to Ireland, 
and five generations of his descendants were born 
before there was another migration. The line is as 
follows : 

1. John Cochran, of Paisley ; 

2. James Cochran, his son; 

3. John Cochran, his son; 

4. James Cochran, his son ; 

5. Robert Cochran, his son. 



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TIOBERT COCHRAN, "the Honest," son of 
-^•^ James Cochran, and great-great-grandson of 
John Cochran, of Paisley, was the ancestor of the 
Cochrans, of Chester county. Pa. 

Issue : 

1. James Cochran, of whom presently. 

2. Stephen Cochran, of whom presently. 

3. David Cochran, of whom presently. 

The three Cochran brothers obtained a large grant of 
land on the Gap and Newport Turnpike, where the 
village of Cochranville perpetuates the family name. 
James Cochran's lands were south of those of Stephen 
and David. 

It is probable that Robert Cochran, "the Honest," had 
another son, William Cochran, of " Carrollsburg." 



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II 



TAMES COCHRAN, son of Robert Cochran, 
*^ "the Honest," was born in Ireland, and died at 
Fang's Manor, Chester county. Pa., in 1766. He 
emigrated to Pennsylvania with his brothers, Stephen 
and David, before 1725, and settled first in Sadsbury 
township, Chester county, removing to Fallowfield 
township in 1745. He was lieutenant of Captain 
Joseph Wilson's company in the Associated Regi- 
ment of Chester county, 1747-48, and he was a lead- 
ing man in the Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church 
(New I^ondonderry), of which he became a ruling 
elder in 1739, after the accession of Re^ . Sanmel 
Blair to the pastorate. Mr. Cochran was married to 
Ann Rowan, daughter of Cornelius Rowan, an early 
settler in Chester county, Pa. 

Issue : 

1. Ann Cochran, was married to the Rev. John Roan, a 
native of Ireland, who died October 3, 1775. He was educated 
at the Log College, and licensed bv the New Side Presbytery, 
of New Castle. He was pastor of the united congregations of 
Paxtang and Derrv, 1744-75. Their son, Flavel Roan, who 
was ])()rn July 31, 1760, and died at Lewisburg, Pa., Feb- 
ruary 19, 1817, was sheriff of Northumberland county, 1791- 
94, and a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, in 1795. 
His sister, Margaret Roan, was the wife of William Clingan, 
of Union county, Pa. 

2. Robert Cochran, was born April, 1726, and died October 
20, 1759. He had a daughter, Isabella. 

.3. John Cochran, of whom presently. 

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THE BARD KINSHIP 397 

4. Stephen Cochran, of whom presently, 

5. James Cochran, died s. p. in 1768. 

6. Jane Cochran, was born March 16, 1734, and died June 
28, 1805. She was married to the Rev. Alexander Mitchel, 
who was born in 1731, and died December 6, 1812. He was 
pastor of the Deep Run Presbyterian Church, Bucks county, 
Pa., 1768-85, and of the Upper Octorara and Doe Run congre- 
gations, Chester county, 1785-96. They had no children. 

7. George Cochran, died March 22, 1786. 

Mrs. Cochran's father, Cornelius Rowan, died in August, 
1725. In his will, he named his wife, Ann, his sons, 
Abraham and David, and his son-in-law, James 
Cochran. 

Stephen Cochran, son of Robert Cochran, "the 
Honest," was born in Ireland, January, 1702, and 
died in Chester county. Pa., December 1, 1790. He 
emigrated to Pennsylvania with his brothers, James 
and David, and settled in Fallowfield township, 
Chester county. He was a witness to the will of 
Robert Fleming, of Londonderry township, as early 
as 1741. He was a member of the board of trustees 
of Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church in 1760. It is 
probable that Mr. Cochran's wife was Isabella Ross, 
as his brother-in-law, John Ross, was one of his 
executors. She was born January 4, 1700, and died 
May 12, 1760. 

Issue : 

1. Samuel Cochran. 

2. James Cochran, was born in 1738, and died December 
12,1812. 

3. Robert Cochran. 

4. Jenny Cochran, married Armstrong. 



398 THE BARD FAMILY 

5. Cochran, married Yough, and had 

Jenny. 

6. Elizabeth Cochran. 

7. Anne Cochran. 

8. Rebecca Cochran. 

David Cochran, son of Robert Cochran, "the 
Honest," was born in Ireland in 1710, and died in 
Chester county, Pa., June 19, 1771. He emigrated 
to Pennsylvania with his brothers, James and 
Stephen. He settled in Fallowfield township, Ches- 
ter county, about 1745. The name of his wife was 
Margaret. She was born in 1717, and died May 12, 
1802. 

Issue : 

1. Robert Cochran, was born in 1749, and died November 
1, 1835. 

2. David Cochran, was born April 21, 1752, and died June 
21, 1825. 

3. Jane Cochran, married James Cunningham. 

4. Margaret Cochran. 

5. Isabel Cochran. 



Ill 

TOHN COCHRAN, son of James and Ann 
^ (Rowan) Cochran, was born in Sadsbury town- 
ship, Chester county. Pa., September 1, 1730, and 
died at Palatine, N. Y., April 6, 1807. He was edu- 
cated at the grammar school of the Rev. Francis 
Alison, and received his professional training under 
Dr. Thompson, at Lancaster. He served as surgeon's 
mate in the expedition against Fort Frontenac, in 
1758. In 1761 he settled at New Brunswick, N. J., 
where he practiced his profession without interrup- 
tion down to the Revolution. He was one of the 
founders of the New Jersey Medical Society in 1766, 
and became its president in 1769. Dr. Cochran was 
appointed Physician and Surgeon-General of the 
Middle Department, Continental Army, April 11, 
1777; Chief Physician and Surgeon of the Army, 
October 6, 1780; and Director-General of Military 
Hospitals, January 17, 1781. He served to the close 
of the war. In 1790, President Washington, having 
"a cheerful recollection of his past services," ap- 
pointed him Commissioner of Loans for the state of 
New York. Shortly before his death a stroke of 
paralysis compelled him to resign his position; he 
then retired to his country seat at Palatine, Mont- 
gomery county, N. Y. Dr. Cochran was married 
December 4, 1760, to Gertrude Schuyler, sister of 
Major-General Philip Schuyler, and widow of Peter 

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400 THE BARD FAMILY 

Schuyler, of New York. She was born in 1725, and 
died March, 1813. 

Issue : 

1. James Cochran. 

2. Walter Livingston Cochran, of whom presently. 

Stephen Cochran, son of James and Ann (Rowan) 
Cochran, was born in Sadsbury township, Chester 
county. Pa., November 17, 1732, and died November 
1, 1790. He was a member of the Pennsylvania 
Assembly, 1777-78, and active in the Revolution. 
In 1777-78, he was enrolled as a private in Captain 
James Davis' company, Chester County Associa- 
tors, and commanded a company in the Eighth Bat- 
talion, Chester County JNIilitia, in 1779. The name 
of his wife was Jane. She was born February 6, 
1741, and died October 26, 1783. 

Issue : 

1. Samuel Cochran, of whom presently. 

2. Jean Cochran, married Robert McFarland. (See Mc- 
Farland Family.) 



IV 



T;^ ALTER LIVINGSTON COCHRAN, son 

^ '^ of Dr. John and Gertrude (Schuyler) Cochran, 
lived on the Cochran homestead at Palatine, N. Y. 

Issue : 

1. John Cochrane, of whom presently. 

Samuel Cochran, son of Stephen and Jane Coch- 
ran, was born in Chester county. Pa., January 16, 
1763, and died May 3, 1829. He was a drummer in 
his father's company in the Chester County JMilitia. 
He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of 
Representatives, 1816-17, and a State Senator, 1818 
20. He was twice surveyor general of the state, 
1800-09, and 1821-24. He was for forty years a rul- 
ing elder of the Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church. 
His wife, Rebecca, was born January 16, 1761, and 
died June 5, 1790. 



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V 



TOHN COCHRANE, son of Walter Livingston 
^ Cochran, was born at Palatine, Montgomery 
county, N. Y., August 27, 1813. He was graduated 
at Hamilton College, in 1831, and admitted to the 
New York Bar in 1834. He was surveyor of the port 
of New York, 18.53-57, and a Representative in Con- 
gress, 1857-61. He was commissioned colonel of the 
1st United States Chasseurs, June 11, 1861, which he 
commanded in the battles of the Peninsula campaign. 
He became brigadier general of volunteers, July 17, 
1862, serving with Couch's division of the Army of the 
Potomac. He participated in the battle of Antietam 
and afterward pursued the retreating enemy, but re- 
signed, February 27, 1863, in consequence of serious 
physical disability. In 1864, he was a candidate for 
Vice-President, on the ticket with General John C. 
Fremont. He was attorney general of the state of 
New York, 1863-65. In 1872, as a member of the 
I^iberal Republican convention, at Cincinnati, he was 
chiefly instrumental in securing the nomination of 
Horace Greeley for the presidency. The same year, 
as president of the Common Council, of the city of 
New York, he was acting mayor during the tempo- 
rary retirement of Mayor Hall, in the midst of the 
Tweed Ring disclosures. Like John Cochrane, young 
laird of Bishopton, he was a gallant soldier, and 
added the final e to his name after the manner of his 
prototype. 

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WILLIAM COCHRAX, a possible son of 
Robert Cochran, "the Honest," was born in 
1699, and died in 1785. He removed from Chester, 
now Delaware county. Pa., to "CarroUsburg," one of 
the manors of Daniel Carroll, of Dudington, in 1732. 
In conjunction with Samuel Emmet and William 
Brown, he purchased from Barrister Carroll the 
"CarroUsburg" tract of 5,000 acres of land. When 
the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland was 
settled. Cochran's part of the tract was found to be in 
Pennsylvania. His wife, Sarah, was born in 1702, 
and died in 1771. 

Issue : 

1. Andrew Cochran. 

2. William Cochran, of whom presently. 

3. James Cochran, of whom presently. 

4. John Cochran, of whom presently. 

5. Margaret Cochran, married Rev. Robert Annan, of 
whom presently. 



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II 



WILLIAM COCHRAN, son of A\ illiani and 
Sarah Cochran, settled in I^urgan, now Let- 
terkenny township, in what is now FrankUn county, 
Pa., before 1751. His widow survived him and was 
still hving in 178G. 

Issue : 

1. Saniuol Cochran, livinj^ in Letterkenny township, in 1786. 

2. Robert Cochran, of whom presently. 

James Cochran, son of William and Sarah Coch- 
ran, was born July 8, 1732, and died December 8, 
1810. He lived near "Carrollsburg" until his death. 
His wife, Jane, was born November 14, 1742, and 
died June 20, 1815. 

Issue : 

1. Melinda Cochran, married Robert L. Annan. 

2. William Cochran, of whom presently. 

3. James Cochran, studied medicine in Philadelphia, and 
became a prominent physician in Pittsburj^h, Pa., where he 

died. He was twice married. His first wife was Black, 

bv whom he had two children. 

John Cochran, son of William and Sarah Coch- 
ran, settled at the site of ^^''aynesboro, Franklin 
county. Pa., soon after 1750, where he died. He was 
a strict Covenanter. In harvest time he always had 
family worship before daylight, singing, reading and 
prayer, when the family and all hands were required 
to be present. Then a lunch, with a little whiskey, 

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THE BARD KINSHIP 405 

was partaken of, preceded by an invocation of the 
divine blessing; then to work awhile before break- 
fast. In walking to worship over a ridge that 
abounded in huckleberries, the young folks dared not 
gather any, as it was considered a breach of the Sab- 
bath. His wife was a Baird. 

Issue : 

1. John Cochran, of whom presently. 

2. Jean Cochran, married James Clark. 

3. Eleanor Cochran, married Joseph Junkin, of whom 
presently. 

4. Mary Cochran, married William Findley, of whom 
presently. 

Margaret Cochran, daughter of William and 
Sarah Cochran, was married in 1764, to Robert 
Annan, who was born in Cupar, Fifeshire, Scotland, 
in 1742, and died in Lancaster county. Pa., Decem- 
ber 5, 1819. He was graduated at the University of 
St. Andrew, and was licensed by the Associate Pres- 
bytery of Perth in 1761. He came to New York 
with John Mason and John Smart the next summer, 
and at once connected himself with the Associate 
Presbytery of Pennsylvania. In October, 1762, he 
received a call from Marsh Creek and Conewago, in 
what is now Adams county, Pa., and was ordained 
and installed there, June 8, 1763. He removed to 
Orange county, N. Y., in 1768, and became pastor of 
the Federal street church, in Boston, in 1788. In 
1786, he took charge of the Old Scots' Church, 
Philadelphia, where he remained until 1802. He was 
pastor of the Associate Reformed congregation, in 
Baltimore, Md., 1802-12, and then retired to his 



406 THE BARD FAMILY 

farm, near Andrews' Bridge, on the Octorara, in Lan- 
caster county. Pa. He was a prolific writer. In 1790, 
he had a long newspaper controversy with Dr. Rush, 
of Philadelphia, on capital punishment. 

Issue : 

1. Robert Landales Annan, studied medicine in Philadel- 
phia, and then went to " Carrollsburg," where he married his 
cousin, Melinda, or Mary Cochran, daughter of James Coch- 
ran. Among their descendants were Robert Annan, of Annan- 
dale, N. Y., who died in 1866, and Dr. Andrew Annan, of 
Emmittsburg, Md, 

2. William Annan, died in 1797. He studied medicine 
and practiced his profession in Philadelphia. 



Ill 



"O OBERT COCHRAN, son of William Cochran, 
-■-*' of old Lurgan, was killed by the Indians in 
1756, and his wife carried into captivity. Mrs. Coch- 
ran was seen in November, 1758, a hundred miles 
southwest of the Ohio river, but nothing further was 
ever heard of her. 

Issue : 

1. John Cochran, died in 1785. He was married April 9, 
1776, to Sarah Mitchell, of Letterkenny township; they had 
a son, Samuel, and a daughter, Ruth. 

2. Margaret Cochran, was married to John Corbin, and 
became one of the heroines of the Revolution. 

William Cochran, son of James and Jane Coch- 
ran, was born in York, now Adams county. Pa., 
May 3, 1775, and died November 15, 1828. In 1814, 
he removed to Ohio, and settled near Glendale. He 
was married June 20, 1805, to Rebecca Morrow, 
daughter of John and Mary (Lockhart) Morrow, of 
Gettysburg, Pa. She was born in York, now Adams 
county, June 12, 1779, and died February 8, 1868. 

Issue : 

1. James W. Cochran, of whom presently. 

2. John Morrow Cochran, of whom presently. 

3. William R. Cochran, of whom presently. 

Mrs. Cochran's grandfather, Jeremiah Murray, was 
born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1711, and died in 
York, now Adams county, Pa., September 14, 1758. 

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408 THE BARD FAMILY 

He settled on Marsh creek, near Gettysburg. In re- 
ligion he was a Covenanter, and was ordained an elder 
of the Rock Creek Church, by the Rev. John Cuthbert- 
son, April 8, 1753. His wife, Sarah, was born in 1722, 
and died December 19, 1798. The Scotch name, 
Murrav, was changed to Morrow by his son, John. 
John Morrow, Mrs. Cochran's father, was born August 
30, 174*3, and died July 31, 1811. He was a farmer on 
Marsh creek, five miles southwest of Gettysburg. His 
farm was in the old Manor of Masque. He was married 
November 9, 1768, to Mary Lockhart, who was born 
March 24, 1745, and died March 12, 1790. Their 
children were Margaret, married Hugh Dun woody; 
Jeremiah; John; Mary, married John D. Robinson; 
Rebecca, married William Cochran; James; Jane, 
married John Hanna; and Martha. Mrs. Morrow was 
a half sister of Rebecca Hodge, who became the wife of 
the Rev. Dr. John Knox, of the Dutch Reformed 
Chuix'h, of New York City. 

Mrs. Cochran's brother, Jeremiah Morrow, was born in 
Freedom township, York, now Adams county. Pa., 
October 6, 1771, and died in Warren county, Ohio, 
March 22, 1852. He was a member of the convention 
that adopted the constitution of Ohio, in 1802; a repre- 
sentative in Congress, 1803-13; United States senator, 
1813-19; and governor of Ohio, 1822-26. In his old 
age, he was again a representative in Congi'ess, 1841—43. 

John Cochran, son of John Cochran, of Waynes- 
boro, died in 1801. The name of his wife was Eliza- 
beth. 

Issue : 

1. John Cochran, died in 1841. His children were Jona- 
than, Findley and Mary. 



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THE BARD KINSHIP 409 

2. George Cochran. 

3. AVilliani Cochran. 

Eleanor Cochran, daughter of John Cochran, of 
Waynesboro, was born in 1760, and died in 1812. 
She was married May 24, 1779, to Joseph Junkin, 
son of Joseph and Ehzabeth (Wallace) Junkin, of 
Silver Spring township, Cumberland county. Pa. He 
was born in 1750, and died in Mercer county, Feb- 
ruary 21, 1831. He was first lieutenant of Captain 
John Trindle's company. Colonel William Cham- 
bers' battalion, Cumberland County Associators, 
1777-80, and commanded a company in Colonel 
James Dunlop's marching battalion, under the call 
of July 28, 1777. He participated in the battle of 
Brandywine, and was severely wounded in the skir- 
mish at White Horse Tavern, on the 16th of Septem- 
ber, his right arm being shattered by a musket ball. 
He also served in the "Flying Camp," in 1776. About 
1800, he purchased a large tract of land at Hope 
Mills, in Mercer county, to which he removed in 1806. 

Issue : 

1. Joseph Junkin, died young. 

2. John Junkin, was born September 12, 1786, and died 
April 27, 1814. He commanded a company in the War of 
1812. He married his cousin, Martha Findley, daughter of 
William and Mary (Cochran) Findley, who died February 14, 
1813. 

3. Joseph Junkin, was ensign in his brother's company, in 
the War of 1812. 

4. George Junkin, of whom presently. 

5. William Junkin, died in childhood. 

6. Benjamin Junkin. 



410 THE BARD FAMILY 

7. William Findlej Junkin. 

8. Matthew Oliver Junkin. 

9. David X. Junkin, of whom presently. 

10. Elizabeth Junkin, married John Findley. 

11. Eleanor Junkin, married Walter Oliver. 

12. Mary Junkin, married Rev. George Buchanan, of whom 
presently. 

13. Agnes Junkin, married (1), Rev. James Galloway; (2), 
Hugh Bingham, of whom presently. 

Joseph Junkin, the father of Joseph Junkin, the 
younger, was a native of County Antrim, Ireland. He 
died at New Kingston, Cumberland county. Pa., in 
1777, where he took up a tract of land, the original 
patent for which was issued in 1740. He built a stone 
house east of the town, which is still standing. He was 
a strict Covenanter. There was a "tent" on the Junkin 
land, about three hundred yards from the dwelling, 
where services were held. He was married to Elizabeth 
Wallace, daughter of John Wallace, who died in 1796. 
Their children were Joseph and Benjamin. 
The Junkin family went from Iverness, in Scotland, to 
Ireland, before the Revolution of 1688. The name is of 
Danish origin, being derived from Danish adventurers 
who settled in North Britain. 

Mary Cochran, daughter of John Cochran, of 
Waynesboro, was born in 1769. She was married to 
William Findley, a native of Ireland, who died in 
Westmoreland county, Pa.. April 5, 1821. He emi- 
grated to Pennsylvania in 1763, and settled near . 
Waynesboro, where he was a schoolmaster for a 
number of years. At the outbreak of the Revolution 
he became a member of the Cumberland county 
Committee of Observation, but declined election to 



THE BARD KINSHIP 411 

the Pennsylvania convention of 1776. He consented, 
however, to serve on the county board of assessors, 
and helped to levy the first taxes under the Constitu- 
tion of 1776. He was captain of a company of the 
eighth battalion, Cumberland County Associators, 
1777-80, and was in command of a marching company 
in active service, in January, 1778. After the Revo- 
lution he removed to Westmoreland county, and was 
a member of the Pennsylvania convention that rati- 
fied the Federal Constitution of 1787. He was also a 
member of the Supreme Executive Council, of Penn- 
sylvania ; of the convention that framed the State 
Constitution of 1790 ; and of the Pennsylvania Leg- 
islature. He was a Representative in Congress, 1791- 
1817, and was the first congressman to earn the 
affectionate appellation of "Father of the House." 
In politics he was a Jefferson Repubhcan. Mr. Findley 
published a review of the Funding System, in 1794, 
and a History of the Whiskey Insurrection, in 1796. 

Issue : 

1 . David Findley, settled in Mercer county, Pa. His child- 
ren were Mary, Nancy, William, John and David. 

2. John Findley, was born in 1773, and died December 9, 
1855. He settled in Mercer county, Pa., in 1796, and was the 
first prothonotary, clerk of the courts, and register and recorder 
of the county. He was married (1) to his cousin, Elizabeth 
Junkin, and (2) to Elizabeth Anderson, daughter of William 
Anderson. His children were David, Patterson, William and 
John Junkin. 

8. Elizabeth Findley, married General Thomas Patterson. 

4. Eleanor Findley, married Carothers. 

5. Mary Findley, married John Black. 

6. Martha Findley, married her cousin, John Junkin. 



IV 



TAMES W. COCHRAN, son of William and 
*^ Rebecca (Morrow) Cochran, was born in Adams 
county, Pa., April 4, 1806, and died May 16, 1880. 
He inherited the old Cochran homestead, at Millville, 
from his parents. He was married (1) to Hannah J. 
Wilson, daughter of AVilliam AVilson, of Butler 
county, Ohio, and (2) January 81, 184-5, to Mary J. 
Hill, who was born December 8, 1824. 

Issue bv his first wife: 

1. Mary Cochran, married David Sample. 

2. William Cochran, was married to Susan J, Whipple. 

3. Jane Cochran, married Samuel Whipple. 

4. Rebecca Cochran, married Cornelius Cole. 
Issue by his second wife: 

1. Elizabeth C. Cochran, born December 13, 1846. 

2. Taylor Cochran, born March, 17, 1848. 

3. John Webster Cochran, born August 26, 1852. 

4. Robert Hill Cochran, born June 28, 1855. 

5. Anna May Cochran, born July 9, 1858. 

6. James Seward Cochran, born June 3, 1861. 

7. P'annie Cochran, born May 28, 1864, 

8. Laurence Cochran, born July H, 1867. 

John Morrow Cochran, son of AVilliam and Re- 
becca (Morrow) Cochran, was born in Adams county, 
Pa., June 18, 1808, and died August 24, 1889. He 
was a farmer near Millville, Ohio. Mr. Cochran was 
married to Jane Wilson, daughter of Joseph and 
Eliza (Dick) Wilson. 

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THE BARD KINSHIP 413 

Issue : 

1. William Annan Cochran, was born near Millville, Ohio, 
April 14, 1835, and lived in Macon, Macon county. He was 
married October 14, 1856, to Julia Ann Lewis; their children 
were John Lewis, Edward Everett, Martha Jane, George Wil- 
son, William Woods, James Marion, Maria Mary, David 
Franklin, Ainiabelle, and Paul Garfield. 

2. Joseph Wilson Cochran, was born December 5^9, 1836, 
and is a lawyer at Los Angeles, Cal. He was married to 
Josephe Willcox; they had one daughter, Grace. 

3. John Morrow Cochran, was born December 13, 1839. 

4. Samuel Dick Cochran, was born February 13, 1842, and 
lives in Wyoming, Ohio. He was married to Marie Fitzgerald; 
their children are Edgar Fitzgerald, Clifford Wilson and 
Samuel Dick. 

5. Eliza Wilson Cochran, was born November 15, 1843. 
She was married October 12, 1871, to the Rev. William H. 
James, who was born at Deerfield, N. J., in 1833. He was 
graduated at Lafayette College, Pa., in 1862. He became 
pastor of the Presbyterian church, at Springdale, Ohio, in 1866. 

6. Jerre Morrow Cochran, was born November 20, 1845, 
-and became a journalist in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was married 
in Wyoming, Ohio, to Carrie R. Rhodes. 

7. Rebecca J. Cochran, was born November 3, 1847. 

8. Nannie Cochran, was born December 3, 1849. 

9. James Marion Cochran, was born December 21, 1851. 

10. Louisa Deshler Cochran, was born August 20, 1853, 
and died April 12, 1854. 

11. Llewellyn Cochran, was born May 20, 1855, and died 
December 22, 1859. 

William R. Cochran, son of William and Rebecca 
(Morrow) Cochran, was born in Adams county, Pa., 
March 17, 1811. He became a lawyer in Butler 
county, Ohio. He was married February 7, 1849, to 



414 THE BARD FAMILY 

Hannah Hill, a sister of the wife of his brother,, 
James W. Cochran. 

Issue : 

1. James Brown Cochran. 

2. Rebecca Jane Cochran, married Lepler. 

3. Morrow Cochran, a farmer in Butler county, Ohio. 

4. James Beatty Cochran, a farmer near Wichita, Kan. 

George Junkin, son of Joseph and Eleanor (Coch- 
ran) Junkin, was born at New Kingston, Pa., No- 
vember 1, 1790, and died in Philadelphia, May 20, 
1868. He was graduated at Jefferson College, Can- 
onsburg, Pa., in 1813, and studied theology in the 
seminary of Dr. Mason, in New York City. He was 
ordained as an evangelist, June 29, 1818, by the 
Associate Reformed Presbytery of Philadelphia. In 
1819, he received a call to Milton, Pa., which he 
accepted, and remained twelve years, notwithstand- 
ing, that he joined the Presbyterian body in 1822. 
In 1830, he took charge of the Manual Labor 
Academy at Germantown, and in 1832, became presi- 
dent of Lafayette College. In 1841, he was made 
president of Miami LIniversity, Ohio, but returned 
to Lafayette in 1844, and remained until 1848, when 
he became president of Washington College, Vr., 
now Washington and Lee LIniversity. He was at 
the head of the college at the outbreak of the Civil 
War, when he resigned because a secession flag was 
hoisted over the institution, and returned to the 
North. He was eminent in the councils of the Pres- 
byterian Church, and was the author of a number of 
theological works. He received the degree of D. D. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 415 

from his alma mater in 1833. Dr. Junkin was mar- 
ried June 1, 1819, to Julia Rush Miller, daughter of 
John and Margaret (Irvin) Miller. She died February 
23, 1854. 

Issue : 

1. John Miller Junkin, was born July 21, 1821. He was a 
physician, and served as a surgeon in the Civil War. Dr. 
Junkin was married in 1852, to Julia Imlay, daughter of 
William Imlay, of Allentown, N. J. 

2. Joseph Junkin, was born in 1823, and died April 3, 1849. 

3. George Junkin, became a lawyer in Philadelphia, Pa. 

4. Ebenezer Denny Junkin, was a teacher at Mount Holly, 
N. J., and Fredericksburg, Va., but afterwards studied for the 
ministry and was graduated at the Princeton Theological Sem- 
inary, in 1854. 

5. William Finney Junkin, was a Presbyterian pastor in 
Virginia. 

6. Margaret Junkin, was married in 1857, to Colonel John 
P. L. Preston, of Lexington, Va., a professor in the Virginia 
Military Institute. Mrs. Preston is the distinguished southern 
writer, Margaret Preston. 

7. Eleanor Junkin, was married August 4, 1853, to Thomas 
J. Jackson, the celebrated confederate general, "Stonewall" 
Jackson. 

8. Junkin, was married in 1856, to Professor Junius 

F. Fishburn, who died March 26, 1858. 

David X. Junkin, son of Joseph and Eleanor 
(Cochran) Junkin, was born at Hope Mills, Mercer 
county, Pa., January 8, 1808, and died at Newcastle, 
Pa., April 22, 1880. He was graduated at Jefferson 
College, in 1831, and studied theology at the Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary. He was pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church, at Greenwich, N. J., 1835-51; 



416 - THE BARD FAMILY 

the F Street Church, Washington, D. C, 1851-53; 
the church at HoUidaysburg, Pa., 1853-60; the North 
Church, Chicago, 1864-66; and the Newcastle, Pa., 
church, 1866-79. He was a chaplain in the United 
States Navy, 1860-64. 

Mary Junkin, daughter of Joseph and Eleanor 
(Cochran) Junkin, was married to George Buchanan, 
wlio was born in York county. Pa., in 1782, and died 
at Steubenville, Ohio, October 14, 1855. He was 
graduated at Dickinson College, in 1805, and studied 
theology under Dr. Mason, in New York. He was 
ordained by the INIonongahela Associate Reformed 
Presbytery, June 19, 1811, and installed pastor, at 
Steubenville, Yellow Creek and Hermon's Creek. He 
resigned Yellow Creek in 1812, and Hermon's Creek 
in 1838, remaining at Steubenville until his death. 

Issue : 

1. John Junkin Buchanan, was born January 24, 1817, 
and died July 27, 1853. He was graduated at Franklin 
College, Ohio, in 1837, and ordained bv Monongahela Presby- 
tery, November 3, 1842. He was pastor of Raccoon and Han- 
over, Beaver county. Pa., 1842-44, and of Mifflin, Allegheny 
county, Pa., 1846-49. 

2. Joseph Buchanan, was born in 1820, and was educated 
at Franklin College, Ohio. He was licensed by Steubenville 
Presbytery, in 1843, but was not ordained until 1876. He 
was for many years principal of the high school at Steubenville. 

Agnes Junkin, daughter of Joseph and Eleanor 
(Cochran) Junkin, was married (1), to the Rev. James 
Galloway, who was born in AVestmoreland county, 
Pa., August 4, 1786, and died May 21, 1818. He 
was graduated at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., 



THE BARD KINSHIP 417 

in 1805, and at the New York Seminary, under Dr. 
Mason. He was ordained pastor of Mercer, Shenango, 
and Mahoning by the Monongaliela Presbytery, 
April 10, 1811. Mrs. Galloway was married (2), to 
Hugh Bingham, a native of Adams county, who 
settled at INlercer, Pa., early in the ninteenth century. 
He was prothonotary and county commissioner of 
Mercer county. 

Issue bv lier first husband: 

1. John Mason Galloway, was born at Mercer, Pa., Jan- 
uary 8, 1813, and died at Clearfield, Pa., April 4, 1865. He 
was graduated at Jefferson College, in 1832, and studied the- 
ology at Princeton and Allegheny. He was ordained by the 
Lake Presbytery, May 23, 1837, and was pastor of Hernion's 
Creek, 1835-55, and of the Presbyterian congi-egation at Clear- 
field, Pa., 1857-64. 

Issue by her second husband: 

1. John Armor Bingham, was born at Mercer, Pa., Jan- 
anuary 21, 1815, and died at Cadiz, Ohio, March 19, 1900. 
He was a Representative in Congress, 1854-73, with the ex- 
ception of one term, and was United States Minister to Japan, 
1873-85. He was married to his cousin, Amanda Bingham, 
daughter of Judge Thomas and Lucinda (Stuart) Bingham, and 
had Lucinda Stuart, Ennna, and Marie Scott. 

2. Marian Bingham. 

3. William Bingham, a Baptist minister. 

4. Martha Bingham, was married to Stuart Patterson, of 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 



AA 



McFARLAND 
I 

JOSEPH McFARI.AND, the ancestor of the 
*^ McFarland family, of Frankhn county, Pa., was 
an early settler in Tinicum township, Bucks county, 
Pa., where he died about 1760. The name of his wife 
was Jean. 

Issue: 

1. John McFarland. 

2. Joseph McP'ailand, was a member of the associated 
company of Tinicum township, Bucks county, commanded by 
Captain Nicholas Patterson, 1775. 

3. Robert McFarland, of whom presently. 

4. James McFarland. 

5. Rachel McFarland. 



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II 



ROBERT JMcPWRLAXD. son of Joseph and 
Jean JNIcFarland, was born in Tinicum town- 
ship. Bucks county, Pa., January 12, 1740, and died 
in Peters township, Frankhn county, January 22, 
1823. He was a member of Captain Nicholas Patter- 
son's company of Tinicum township mihtia in 1775, 
and is recorded as taking the oath of allegiance to 
the state in Bucks county, August 28, 1777. A 
church certificate, granted to Robert and Jean JNIc- 
Farland, of Tinicum township, Bucks county, May 
18, 1778, and signed by Alexander Mitchell, V. B. M., 
says he had lived in the congregation since infancy. 
He removed with his family to Cimiberland, now 
Franklin county, in 1778, and lived in Peters town- 
ship until his death. Mr. McFarland was married in 
1770 to Jean Cochran, daughter of Stephen and Jane 
Cochran, of Fagg's Manor, Chester county, Pa. She 
was born February 10, 1743, and died April 2, 1827. 

Issue : 

1. Joseph McFarland, was born February 22, 1771, and 
died November 20, 1782. 

2. Stephen McFarland^ was married to Catharine Bard. 
(See "Descendants of Richard Bard.") 

3. Prudence McFarland, was born April 17, 1774, and 
died December 2, 1804. 

4. Robert C. McFarland, was born December 2, 1776, and 
died June 15, 1850. He was a prominent farmer in Peters 
township, Franklin county. Pa. 

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420 THE BARD FAMILY 

5. Ann McFarland, married Matthew Patton, of whom 
presently. 

6. John McFarland, of whom presently. 

7. Jane Cochran McFarland, married Thomas Bard. (See 
"Descendants of Richard Bard.") 

8. Mary McFarland, married William Wilson, of whom 
presently. 



Ill 



A NN .McFARLAND, daughter of Robert and 
-'-^ Jean (Cochran) JNIcFarland, was born April 8, 
1779, and died April 26, 1816. She was married to 
Matthew Patton, son of James and Mary (Newell) 
Patton. He was born at old Fort Loudon, in Peters 
township, Cumberland, now Franklin county. Pa., 
April 12, 1776, and died June 25, 1845. He was a suc- 
cessful business man and leading citizen. He raised a 
company of cahary during tlie War of 1812, but 
because of an order that the enlistment of men should 
be discontinued, the company was disbanded. He 
was for inany years a justice of the peace for Peters 
township, and he was twice a director of the poor for 
Franklin county, 1818 20, and 1841-48. He was ap- 
pointed an associate judge of Franklin county, October 
9, 1830, and served until the appointment of Robert 
Smith, as his successor, in 1836. Judge Patton was a 
Presbyterian, but for convenience he became con- 
nected with the Reformed Church, at what is now 
the village of Fort I^oudon. He was tall and slender, 
and on the Bench sat bolt upright, seldom changing 
his position. 

Issue : 

1. James Pattoji, of whom presently. 

5^. Robert AIcFarland Patton, was born June 4, 1806, and 
died August 29, 1811. 

3. John Patton, was born January 23, 1808, and died July 
8, 1813. 

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422 THE BARD FAMILY 

4. Jane Cochran Pat ton, was born May 8, 1810, and died 
August 19, 1810. 

5. Mary Ann Patton, was born July 11, 1811, and died 
April 7, 1880. She was married to John Barnes, with whom 
she removed to Beloit, Wis. 

Mr. Patton's grandfather, Matthew Patton, was the 
original settler on what became the site of Fort Loudon, 
built in 1756. His first house was burnt by the Indians 
in the first onslaught of the savages upon the Con- 
ococheague frontier. The logs were in place and the 
roof was on a new house when the site was taken for 
the fort late in the year. The new house was within 
the stockade, or inclosure, and was appraised and taken 
for the use of the garrison. The situation of the fort 
was at a bend of the Conococheague creek, south of the 
base of Mt. Parnell, and about two miles southeast of 
the present village of Fort Loudon. Relics of the In- 
- dian wars are occasionally picked up in the adjacent 
fields. Not a vestige of the old fort remains, although 
it is claimed that what looks like a ledge of rock near 
the present dwelling house is a part of the foundation 
of chimneys within the enclosure. On the bank of the 
creek is a fine spring that was probably within the 
stockade. It is said that some of the logs fron) the 
old fort were used in the erection of the rear part of 
the existing dwelling house. Matthew Patton died in 
1777. The name of his wife was Elizabeth. Their 
children were James, Samuel, Robert, John, Matthew, 
Thomas, Sarah, and a daughter who married Isaac 
Wilson. 

His father, James Patton, was born in Ireland, in 1734, 
and died at Fort Loudon, January 16, 1821. He was 
captain of the fourth company in Colonel Samuel Cul- 
bertson\s battalion of Ciunberland County Associators, 



THE BARD KINSHIP 423 

1777—80. He was married to Mary Newell, daughter 
of Robert Newell, who was born in 1736, and died June 
7, 1806. Their children were Robert, James, Matthew, 
Margaret (Mrs. White), Rebecca, Mary (Mrs. McKins- 
try), Elizabeth (Mrs. McCall), and Grizzel. 
After Mrs. Patton's death, Mr. Patton married (2), 
Susan Seaburn. She was born in 1800, and died Oc- 
tober 1, 1863. Their children were Elias, Andrew J,, 
and Rebec-ca Margaret. 

John McFarland, son of Robert and Jean (Coch- 
ran) McFarland, was born February 27, 1782, and 
died December 18, 1856. He was a prominent farmer 
and leading citizen of Peters township, Franklin 
county, Pa. He was active in military affairs, and 
held the rank of captain in the Franklin county 
militia. Captain McFarland was married November 
11, 1812, to Eliza Parker, daughter of Major Robert 
and Mary (Smith) Parker. She was born in 1790, 
and died January 27, 1845. 

Issue : 

1. Jane Cochran McFarland, married William H. McDowell, 
of whom presently. 

2. Robert Parker McFarland, of whom pix'sentlv. 

3. John Franklin McFarland, was born in 1816, and died 
in California. 

4. Mary Smith McFarland, married Charles Gillespie Lowe, 
of whom presently. 

5. Ann Patton McFarland, was married June 11, 1845, to 
Leonard C. Jordan. 

6. Elizabeth Porter McFarland, was born February 20, 
1822, and died unmarried, January 3, 1854. 

7. Thomas Bard McFarland, of whom presently. 



424 THE BARD FAMILY 

Mary McFarland, daughter of Robert and Jean 
(Cochran) McFarland, was born in Frankhn county, 
Pa., April 8, 1786, and died in Ohio, September 27, 
1837. She was married April 5, 1815, to William 
Wilson, son of John and Ann (Campbell) Wilson. 
She was his second wife. He was born in Peters 
township, Franklin county. Pa., March 13, 1785, and 
died at College Hill, Ohio, July 29, 1864. He was a 
farmer in Peters township until 1824, when he re- 
moved to Ohio, where the rest of his life was spent. 

Issue : 

1. John Wilson, was born March 30, 1816. He went to 
California about 1850. He was married to Susan Carman, and 
had one son, William Ashley Wilson. 

2. Jane Cochran Wilson, was born June 19, 1818, and 
died March 13, 1896. She was married to Amos Worthington. 

3. Prudence Ann Wilson, was born September 16, 1821, 
and died August 17, 1836. 

' 4. Mary Smith Wilson, was born June, 30, 1823, and died 
January 6, 1905. 

5. William Wilson, was born August 17, 1825. He was 
married in Mississippi and had one son, William Wilson. 

6. Robert McFarland Wilson, was born August 15, 1828. 
He went to Mississippi before the Civil War and served in the 
Confederate army. 

For Mr. Wilson's children by his first wife, Martha 
Bard, see "Descendants of Richard Bard." 



IV 



TAMES PATTON, son of Matthew and Ann 
*^ (McFarland) Patton, was born at Fort Loudon, 
Franklin county. Pa., July 11, 1804, and died at 
Carlisle, Pa., August 6, 1880. In 1827, he was chosen 
major of the first battalion, 118th regiment, Pennsyl- 
vania militia. He was appointed collector of canal 
and railroad tolls, at Columbia, by Governor Porter, 
in 1839. He was active in promoting the transporta- 
tion system of the state, which resulted in the organ- 
ization of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Ma- 
jor Patton was married to Harriet Scott, daughter of 
Thomas and Rebecca (Douglass) Scott. She died at 
Dixon, 111., April 17, 1877. 

Issue : 

1. Rebecca Scott Patton, died October 17, 1850. 

Mrs. Patton's father, Thomas Scott, died in 1834, at 
l^oudon, a village at the base of the Cove mountain, in 
Franklin county. Pa. The village is on the Chambers- 
burg and Bedford turnpike, which, in his day, was 
part of the great highway between Pittsburgh and the 
East. He kept the Eagle Hotel, a much-frequented 
hostelry, especially by wagoners, when Conestoga 
wagons were the only means of transportation over the 
mountains. He was married to Rebecca Douglass, 
daughter of Archibald and Sarah (Agnew) Douglass, of 
the Great Cove, in what is now Fulton county, Pa. 
Their children were Mary, James D., Harriet, Sarah 
Ann, Eliza Jane, Alexander W., Margaretta, Thomas 

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426 THE BARD FAMILY 

Alexander, William P., and Rebecca Douglass. Mrs. 
Patton''s brother, Thomas A. Scott, was assistant secre- 
tary of war, and president of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company. 

Jane Cochran JNIcFarland, daughter of John and 
Eliza (Parker) McFarland, was born June 29, 1813, 
and died JMarch 20, 1893. She was married December 
27, 1837, to William Henry McDowell, son of 
Thomas and JNIary C. (Davidson) McDowell. He 
was born at the base of IMt. Parnell, in Franklin 
county. Pa., February 6, 1813, and died in Chambers- 
burg, Pa., Jainiary 3, 1900. He was a farmer in early 
life, but failing health induced him to remove to 
Chambersbiu'g in 1850. He was prothonotary of 
Franklin county, 1868-69. 

Issue : 

1. Mary Davidson McDowell, was born December 10, 1838, 
and died January 16, 1849. 

2. Eli/a Parker McDowell, was born February 3, 1841, and 
died unmarried, August 23, 1892. 

3. Thomas Hugh McDowell, was born January 13, 1843; 
lives in the West. 

4. John McFarland McDowell, was born August 1, 1845. 
He was admitted to the Franklin County Bar and practices his 
profession in Chambersburg, Pa. He was elected prothonotary, 
of Franklin county, in 1879, and served one term. In 1903, 
he accepted the position of United States Commissioner, at 
Nome, Alaska, which he resigned in 1906. He was married 
January 15, 1880, to Clara E. Clendenin, daughter of Judge 
John Clendenin, of Hogestown, Pa. Their children are Jane, 
John Clendenin and Milton G. 

5. Henry C. McDowell, was born February 3, 1848; lives 
in the AVest. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 427 

6. Franklin McDowell, was born May 2, 1850, and died 
September 7, 1850. 

7. Robert McDowell, was born May 2, 1850, and died 
January B, 1851. 

8. Annie Catharine McDowell, was born July 1, 1852; lives 
in Chanibersbm'g, Pa. 

9. Edward Campbell McDowell, was born October 13, 
1855, and died youni>;. 

Mr, McDowell was a grandst)n of William McDowell, 
who settled at the base of Mt. Parnell, in 1735. 

Robert Parker McFarland, son of John and Eliza 
(Parker) McFarland, was born in Franklin county, 
Pa.. October 29, 1814, and died May 26, 1899. He 
lived all his life on the farm on which he was born, 
the old McFarland homestead, near Mercersburg. 
He was an intelligent farmer and leading citizen of 
the county, but never aspired to public office. His 
reading was extensi\'e and lie was especially well 
versed in the writings of Shakspere. He was a fre- 
quent contributor to the county papers and was a 
forceful writer on questions of political reform. For 
half a century he was a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, at Mercersburg. Mr. McFarland was mar- 
ried to Ellen .1. Robison, a sister of the Hon. David 
F. Robison. member of the Thirty-fourth Congress. 

Issue : 

1. Anna FuUerton McFarland, was born December 21, 
1844. She was married to Arthur Stabler. 

2. John Da\idson McFarland, was born October 22, 1846. 

3. Virginia Martha McFarland, was born November 14, 
1848. She was married to Benjamin J. Jordan. 

4. Eliza Parker McFarland, was born September 17, 1850. 



428 thp: bard family 

5. Mary Louisa McFarland, was born February 28, 1852. 

6. Alice Robison McFarland, was born April 4, 1854. 

7. Robert Robison McFarland, was born March 24, 1857. 

8. Thomas Franklin McFarland, was born April 8, 1859. 

9. David Fullerton McFarland, was born June 29, 1860. 

JNIaiy Smith JMcFarhmd, daughter of John and 
Eliza (Parker) McFarland, was born June IG, 1818, 
and died January 12, 1861. Slie was married Octo- 
ber 20, 1847, to Charles (xillespie T.owe, son of James 
and Elizabeth (Gillespie) Lowe. He was born near 
Fort Loudon, September 27, 1821, and died January 
6, 1878. He was a prominent citizen of Mercers- 
burg, l*a. 

Issue : 

1. Elizabeth (iillespie Lowe, was Ixu'n October 13, 1848. 
She was married January 24, 1878, to Charles Henry Fallon, 
who was born April 7, 1856, and had Anna Margaret, born 
January 15, 1879; Elias Edt^ar, born November 20, 1881, and 
Marv Lowe. 

2. Alice Parkei- J^owe, was born February 1, 185J3. She 
was mari-ied December 17, 1873, to John Calvin Rummel, who 
was born Maix-h 4, 1848, and had Charles Lowe, l)()rn August 
4, 1875, and Mary C, born May 11, 1877. 

3. Frank Overton Lowe, was born Januarv 12, 1856, and 
died June 28, 1858. 

Thomas Hard McFarland, son of John and Eliza 
(Parker) McFarland, was born on the old McFarland 
homestead, near Mercersburg, Pa., April 19, 1828. 
He was graduated from Marshall College, Mercers- 
burg, in 1846. Shortly afterwards he began the study 
of law with his cousin, llobert M. Bard, in Chambers- 
burg, Pa. He was admitted to the Bar, in October,. 



THE HARD KINSHIP 429 

1849, by the celelH-jited Jeremiali S. lilack, who was 
then the presiding judge of the judicial district which 
included Franklin county. He did not, however, 
practice his profession in Peinisylvania, but innne- 
diately made preparations to go to California, where 
he arrived in September, 18.50, having crossed the 
plains. He followed the vocation of a miner for about 
three years, but did not meet with nuich success. In 
the winter of 18.58 .54, he began the practice of his 
profession at Nevada City, Nevada county, Cal., and 
continued in active practice there until 18(51, when 
he was elected judge of the District Court. He had 
previously served as a member of the State T^egisla- 
ture from Nevada county, in 18.50. He was elected 
and served a second term as district judge, at the end 
of which time he removed to Sacramento City, Cal., 
and there practiced about twelve years. During that 
time he served a term as Register of the United 
States Land Office, and was appointed to a second 
term, l)ut shortly after resigned. He was a member 
of the State Constitutional Convention that met in 
1879, and framed the present State Constitution. In 
1882, Judge JNlcFarland was appointed to fill a two 
years' vacancy on the Bench of the Superior Court, of 
Sacramento county, by Governor George C. Perkins, 
now United States Senator from California. In 1884, 
he was elected for the full term of six years as judge 
of the Superior Court, but in 188(>, he was elected to 
a twelve-year term as justice of the Supreme Court, 
of California. He served out that term and was re- 
elected to a second term, wiiich he is now filling. 
Altogether, Justice McFarland has been on the 



430 THE BARD FAMILY 

Bench a period of over thirty- three years. He was 
originally a member of the old-time Whig party, but 
since the election of Lincoln, in 1860, he has been an 
ardent Republican. 

Justice McFarland was married at Nevada City, 
in 1861, to Susie Briggs, a native of Cortlandt county, 
N. Y. 

Issue : 

1. Jennie H. McFarland, lives in San Francisco, Cal. 



PARKER 

^X^HE Parker families of the United States are of 
-*- English or Anglo-Irish origin. Abraham Par- 
ker, the first of the name in America, came from 
Wiltshire, Eng., to Woburn, Mass., where he was 
married to Rose Whitlock, November 18, 1644. He 
had two brothers, James and Joseph, who were 
prominent in the history of Groton, Mass. John 
Parker settled at Weston, Mass., in 1650. The Par- 
kers of Rah way, N. J., are descended from another 
Joseph Parker, who died at Shrewsbury, Conn., in 
1684. The Parker family of West Chester, Pa., 
comes from Jonas Parker, of Micklethwaite, Eng., 
whose grandson, John Parker, emigrated to Phila- 
delphia with the Quaker exodus of 1684. John Par- 
ker, the Friend, was born at Raven Royd, Yorkshire, 
Eng., May 24, 1664, and died at Philadelphia, March 
7, 1717. His son, Abraham Parker, became the 
ancestor of the Parker family of Chester county. 
Contemporary with Abraham Parker were three 
brothers, William, Archibald and James Parker, 
whose family history is related in this chapter. 



(431) 



WILLIAM PARKER, the ancestor of the Par- 
ker family of Philadelphia, now Montgomery 
county. Pa., died in April, 1757. His history has 
been lost to his posterity. In his will, which was 
dated April 18, 1757, and proved April 30, 1757, 
besides his wife and children, he named two brothers, 
Archibald and James Parker. Mr. Parker was mar- 
ried at Abington Presbyterian Church, INIay 26, 1748, 
to Elizabeth Todd, daughter of Robert and Isabella 
(Hamilton) Todd. She was born in 1730, and died 
May 21, 1790. 

Issue : 

1. Elizabeth Parker, married General Andrew Porter, of 
whom presently. 

2. Alexander Parker, died in Kentucky. He was enrolled 
in the Warrington company, Bucks county militia, in 1775. 
After the Revolution he removed to Kentucky, and was one of 
the original trustees of Transylvania University. He was mar- 
ried to Elizabeth McCalmont, and had a son, William, and 
two daughtei's, Marv and Elizabeth. 

3. Robert Parker, of whom presentlv. 

Mrs. Parker's father, Robert Todd, was a son of John 
Todd, of County Armagh, Ireland. He was l)orn in 
1697, and died near The Trappe, Montgomery county. 
Pa., in 1775. He emigrated to America with his 
brother, Andrew Todd. He was twice married. The 

name of his first wife according to tradition was — '■ 

Smith. He was married (2), to Isabella Hamilton. By 
the first marriage, there were two sons, John and David, 
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THE BARD KINSHIP 433 

and by his second wife he had nine children : Ehzabeth, 
wife of WiUiam Parker ; Robert; William; Mary, mar- 
ried James Parker; Sarah, married John Finley; 
Rebecca, married Robert Major; Samuel; Levi and 
Andrew. 

Mrs. Parker was married (2), to Arthur McFarland, 
son of James McFarland. He was born in 1720, and 
died July 20, 1780. By this marriage she had four 
children: Margaret, married Stephen Porter; Mary, 
married David Todd; John and James. 

Archibald Parker, brother of the preceding, whose 
history has not been ascertained. 

James Parker, brother of the preceding, was first 
heutenant in Captain Wilham Nelson's company, of 
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Curry's battalion, Phila- 
delphia County Militia, in 1780, He went to Ken- 
tucky in 1784, where he died. He was married to 
Mary Todd, daugliter of Robert and Isabella 
(Hamilton) Todd. 

Issue : 

1. Robert Porter Parker, of whom presently. 

2. John Parker, died in Kentucky. He represented Fay- 
ette county ill the Kentucky Legislature, in 1795 '98 ''08-'16- 
"'17-*'19. He was married to his cousin, Isabella Todd, daughter 
of Robert and Elinor (McFarland) Todd, and had two sons, 
Robert and John, and five daughters, Margaret, married David 
Bryan; Elizabeth, married William Edge; Maiy, married 
Joseph Craig; Nellie, married William L.Todd; and Nancy, 
married William Bowman. 

3. Elizabeth Parker, died at Walnut Hills, near Lexington, 
Ky. She was married to Jacob Todhunter, of the Chester 
county family of that name. She had one son, Parker E. 
Todhunter. 

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434 THE BARD FAMILY 

4. Isabella Parker, was married to William Bodley, son of 
Thomas and Eliza Bodley, of County Donegal, Ireland. He 
was born in 1747, and died December 4, 1780. He was a cap- 
tain and major in the Chester county militia in the Revolution. 
His death was due to exposure while in the service. Their chil- 
dren were James, Thomas, John, William and Elizabeth. 

5. Mary Parker, died at Lexington, Ky., in 1840. She was 
married to Robert McGowan, a native of Ireland, who died at 
Lexington in 1808. They had six sons, Stewart, David, Rob- 
ert, James M., Thomas B. and Joseph. 

6. Jean Parker, was married to Alexander, and 

had Isabella, Mary and Mai'garet. 



II 



"Jpr.IZABETH PARKER, daughter of William 
-*-^ and Elizabeth (Todd) Parker, was born Au- 
gust 23, 1751, and died May 15, 1821. She was mar- 
ried May 20, 1777, to Captain Andrew Porter, son of 
Robert Porter, an early settler in Worcester town- 
ship, Montgomery county, Pa. She was his second 
wife. He was born September 24, 1743, and died at 
Harrisburg, Pa., November 16, 1813. As a youth he 
studied mathematics under Patrick Mennon, an Irish 
schoolmaster in the neighborhood of his father's farm. 
He began teaching in the country, but upon the 
advice of David Rittenhouse, the famous astronomer, 
he removed to Philadelphia and opened a mathe- 
matical school, and conducted it with success for a 
number of years. The accounts of Mr. Porter's entry 
upon his Revolutionary career are conflicting. Ac- 
cording to a sketch in the Pennsylvania Magazine of 
History (Vol. \\\ p. 263), he was commissioned by 
Congress. June 19. 1776, a captain of marines on the 
frigate Effingham. The Effingham was an armed 
boat of the Pennsylvania Xavy, but the name of Cap- 
tain Porter does not appear on the muster rolls. In 
Heitman's "Historical Register" his record is given 
as lieutenant of the 4th Maryland Battalion of the 
"Flying Camp," from June to December, 1776. This 
is probably correct, as his record is a continuous one 
afterward. He was appointed 1st lieutenant of the 
5th Regiment, Maryland Line, December 10, 1776, 

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4>m THE BARD FAMIJ.V 

and captain in tlie 2d Continental ^Vrtillery, Colonel 
Lamb, January 1, 1777. He was transferred to the 
4th Continental Artillery, Colonel Proctor, January 
1, 1781, with which he served until the close of the 
Mar. He was promoted to be major, April 17, 1781, 
and lieutenant-colonel commandant, January 1, 1782. 
Captain Porter was in connnand of a battery at the 
battles of Princeton, Brandywine and (Tcrmantown. 
At Brandywine he was commended on the field by 
General AVashington for o-allant conduct in that 
action. In 1779, he served in (General James Clin- 
ton's brigade, in General Sullivan's expedition against 
the Indians. AVhen it was determined to invest 
Vorktown, Colonel Portei- was directed to take 
charge of the laboratory at Philadelphia, where the 
ammunition for the siege was prepared. He accepted 
with reluctance, because of his earnest wish for ser- 
vice in the field. 

After the Revolution Colonel Porter was offered 
the chair of mathematics in the I niversity of Penn- 
syhania, but he declined it and retired to a farm that 
he had purchased in Montgomery county. He ser\ed 
as a commissioner in behalf of Pennsylvania for run- 
ning the boundary lines between Pennsylvania and 
Virginia, and Pennsylvania and what is now Ohio, 
1783-87. He left an interesting journal of his share 
in the work, which was printed in the Pennsylvania 
Magazine, Vol. IV, pp. 268-80. In 1800, he was 
appointed with General Irvine and J. Evans Boude 
to settle the controversies of the Pennsyhania claim- 
ants in the seventeen toMiiships in the county of 
Luzerne, but he resigned in the spring of 1801. He 



THE BARD KINSHIP 437 

was also appointed l^rigadier-general of the First 
Brigade, Second Division P. M., in 1800, and he suc- 
ceeded General Peter Muhlenberg as major-general 
of the division. In April, 1809, he was appointed by 
(xovernor Snyder, Surveyor General of Pennsyh ania, 
and filled this office until his death. At the outbreak 
of the second war with Great Britain, General Porter 
was offered a commission as brigadier-general in the 
United States Army, but he declined it because of 
his advanced years. 

Issue : 

1. Charlotte Porter, was born February 1, 1778. She was 
married to Robert Brooke, of Virginia, afterward of Philadel- 
phia. He was born February 2i2, 1770, and died November 4, 
1821. Their children were Andrew Parkei', F^lizabeth Mary, 
Caroline A., married C. N. Bridges ; William P.; Robert M.; 
Eliza Parker, married Rev. A. Heberton; Stephen H.; Pierce 
Butler; Charles AVallace; and Charlotte M., married Francis 
McCullough. 

2. Anna Maria Porter, was born Januarv 1, 1781, and 
died April, 1781. 

3. Alexander Parker Porter, was born May 8, 1782, and 
died August, 1782. 

4. John Ewing Porter, was born May 11, 1784, and died 
unmarried at Plymouth, N. C, November 14, 1819. He 
studied law with his brother Robert, and began practice in 
Chester and Montgomery counties. In consequence of a sharp 
letter from his father, disapproving of the way in which a mat- 
rimonial engagement was broken, he abandoned his practice, 
and changing his name to Parker, he removed to North Caro- 
lina, where he became a physician. 

5. Harriet Porter, was born October 19, 1786. She was 
married to Colonel Thomas McKeen, president of the Easton 



438 THE BARD FAMILY 

Bank. She was his second wife. He was born June ^6, 1763, 
and died November 25, 1858. 

6. David Rittenhouse Porter, of whom presently. 

7. George Brvan Porter, of whom presentlv. 

8. James Ma(Hson Porter, of whom presentlv. 

General Porter's father, Robert Porter, was born on the 
Isle of Bert, near Londonderry, Ireland, in 1699, and 
died July 14, 1770. He emigrated to Londonderry, 
N. H., in 1720, but soon afterward removed to Wor- 
cester township, Montgomery county, Pa., where he 
purchased a farm aljout four nn'les from Norristown. 
He was a ruling elder of Norristown Presbyterian 
Church as early as 1741. He reared a family of nine 
sons and five daughters. 

General Porter was mari'ied (1), March 10, 1767, to 
Elizabeth McDowell, who died April 9, 1773. They 
had five children: Robert, president judge of the Third 
Judicial District of Pennsylvania; Elizabeth, wife of 
Robert P. Parker; Mary, married her cousin, Robert 
Porter; Andrew and William. 

Robert Parker, son of William and Elizabeth 
(Todd) Parker, was born in 1754, and died at Mer- 
cersbur^, Pa., May 1, 1799. He entered the service 
of the United States from Pliiladelphia, April 28, 
1777, as second lieutenant in the 2d Continental 
Artillery, Colonel John Lamb, in which his brother- 
in-law, Andrew Porter, was a captain. He was pro- 
moted to first lieutenant, January 1, 1781, and 
transferred to the 4th Continental Artillery — the 
Pennsylvania regiment — Colonel Thomas Proctor; 
he was made captain lieutenant to succeed Thomas 
Story, October 4, 1782. He served until June, 1783. 

lieutenant Parker was with liis battery at the 



THE BARD KINSHIP 439 

battles of Brandy wine and Germantown, in 1777 ; in 
the battle of Monmouth, in 1778; with General 
James Clinton's brigade in General Sullivan's expe- 
dition against the Indians, in 1779; and in the siege 
of Yorktown, 1781. He was with the Southern army, 
1782-83. While the army w^as at Valley Forge Lieu- 
tenant Parker was one of a number of officers sent to 
Carlisle, Pa., by the Board of War to learn the art 
of fixing ammunition. "As you are sent to obtain a 
perfect knowledge of the business," General Gates, 
President of the Board, wrote April 28, 1778, "not 
only on your own accoimt, but to promidgate it 
through the States, the Board make no doubt of 
your diligently and manfully applying yoin-selves to 
the task you have undertaken. We have too good an 
opinion of you all to suppose that it will be necessary 
to impress this sentiment upon you; because should 
there be any who are negligent, or averse to being 
taught, the Board are satisfied, as men regarding the 
interest of your country, you would return to your 
other duty, and put some other person in a situation 
so desirable as that you are now in. The time you 
have been at Carlisle has been one argmnent with 
the Board, added to their anxiety to have the labora- 
tory art more generally known, and we shall be 
happy to hear on your return to camp, and we have 
no doubt we shall, that the knowledge you have 
gained at Carlisle is equal to the expectation formed 
when the measure of sending you there was adopted." 
The letter of General Gates was addressed to Cap- 
tains Craig and Proctor, Captain Lieutenant Parker 
and Lieutenants Cooper and Parker, Carlisle. At 



440 THE BARD FAMILY 

that time there were only two Parkers in the Con- 
tinental Artillery, Captain Phineas Parker, of Bald- 
win's Artillery Artificer Regiment, and Lieutenant 
Robert Parker, of the 2d Continental Artillery. It 
thus appears that both of them were chosen for this 
important service. I^ieutenant Parker's stay at Car- 
lisle was probably his first visit to the Cumberland 
Valley, in which he made his home after the Revo- 
lution. He kept a Journal of the Sullivan Expedi- 
, tion that has been preserved, and was printed in the 
Pennsylvania Magazine of History for October, 1902, 
and January, 1903. 

When General Lafayette visited America, in 
1824, James Madison Porter, the youngest son of 
General Andrew Porter, was presented to him soon 
after his arrival in New York. " Porter," said the 
French hero, "I remember that name; are you any 
relation of Captain Porter, whom I met at the 
Brandy wine." "A son," young Porter answered. " I 
bless you for your father's sake," Lafayette said. " He 
was a brave man. He had with liim there a young 
man, a relative I think, whose name I have forgotten. 
They fought very nearly together." "Was it Parker?" 
Madison Porter asked. "That was the name." "He 
was my mother's brother." "Ah, indeed," the Mar- 
quis, said; "they were good soldiers, and very kind 
to me when I was wounded. " Captain Parker was a 
member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

Captain Parker was appointed collector of excise 
for Franklin county by the Supreme Executive 
Council, November 17, 1787. He built for himself, 
in the ^'illage of Mercersburg, a fine mansion for that 



THE BARD KINSHIP 441 

period, which is still standing. In the east wall is a 
tablet containing his initials, R. P., almost obliterated 
by exposure to the elements. 

Captain Parker was married May 10, 1787, to 
Mary Smith, daughter of William and Mary (Smith) 
Smith. She was born in 1764, and died at Mercers- 
burg, Pa., December 1, 1848. 

Issue : 

1. Eliza Parker, married John McFarland. (See McFarland 
Family, ante.) 

2. Mary Smith Parker, married Dr. Peter W. Little. (See 
Little Family, post.) 

Robert Porter Parker, son of James and Mary 
(Todd) Parker, died in March, 1800. He settled in 
Kentucky, where he died in the prime of life. He 
was married March 16, 1789, to Elizabeth Porter, 
daughter of General Andrew and Elizabeth (Mc- 
Dowell) Porter. She was born September 27, 1769, 
and died at Lexington, Ky., in 1851. 

Issue : 

1. Mary Ann Parker, was married to John C. Ricliardson, 
and had five children: Jane, married Minor O'Bannon; John 
C, was a judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri, and was 
married to Betty Lionburger; Sarah, married John Fey; Eliza- 
beth, married June, 1844, Dr. John B. Alexander, a physician 
at Shelby ville, Ky., and Lafayette county, Mo.; and Robert 
Parker, married Leonard. 

2. Ann Eliza Parker, married Robert Smith Todd, of whom 
presently. 

3. James Porter Parker, removed to Port Gibson, Miss., 
where he died. He was married to Mary Milligan, and had 
Martha, Robert, William, John, Mary and James. 



442 THE BARD FAMILY 

4. Andrew William Parker, was married to Camille Brasher, 
and had one daughter, Camille, married William D. Irvine. 

5. John Todd Parker, was a physician at Shelbyville and 
afterward at Newport, Ky. He was married to Jane Logan 
Allen, daughter of Colonel John and Jane (Logan) Allen, and 
granddaughter of General Benjamin Logan. They had six 
children: Elizabeth Jane, married Sanmel Boyd; Anna Maria, 
married William M. Dickson; Robert Henry; Mary Eliza; 
married John J. Dickson; John Allen, and James Porter. 

6. Robert Parker, died unmarried at Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Ill 



"PIAVID RITTENHOUSE PORTER, son of 

-*-^ General Andrew and Elizabeth ( Parker) Porter, 
was born October 31, 1788, and died at Harrisburg, 
Pa., August 6, 1867. He studied law, but never 
practiced because of feeble health in his early life. 
As a young man he served as a clerk in the Surveyor 
General's office, at Harrisburg, under his father, and 
later settled in Hinitingdon county, where he was a 
clerk at, and afterward manager of Barree Forge. 
His first venture in the manufacture of iron was dis- 
astrous and his firm failed in 1819. Mr. Porter was 
active in politics from his youth. The first office that 
he held was county auditor of Huntingdon county, 
to which he was elected in 1815. He was a member 
of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 
1819-21, and 1822-23; prothonotary and clerk of the 
courts of Huntingdon county, 1823-36; register and 
recorder, 1827-36; state senator, 1837-39, and (Gov- 
ernor of Pennsylania, 1839-45. After retiring from 
the gubernatorial office he again engaged in the man- 
ufacture of iron, and he built the first anthracite 
furnace erected at Harrisburg. 

Governor Porter was married September 28, 1820, 
to Josephine McDermott, daughter of A\^illiam JMc- 
Dermott, a native of Scotland, who engaged in the 
manufacture of steel by a new process in Hunting- 
don county. Mrs. Porter acted as her husband's 
clerk while he filled the courthouse offices at Hunt- 

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444 THE BARD FAMILY 

ingdoii and many of the wills and deeds in the 
Huntingdon county records are in her handwriting. 

Issue ; 

1. William Augustus Porter, was born May 24, 1821, and 
died June 28, 1886. He was a justice of the Supreme Court 
of Pennsylvania by appointment in 1858, and in 1874 he be- 
came judge of the Court of Alabama Claims at Washington, 
D. C. He wrote a life of Chief Justice John B. Gibson. 

2. Andrew Porter, deceased. 

3. George W. Porter, was born March 9, 1825. He was a 
physician at Harrisburg, Pa., where he was appointed post- 
master bv President Buchanan, in 1857. He was married in 
1854 to Emily Reilv, daughter of Dr. Luther and Rebecca 
(Orth) Reily, of Harrisburg. She died September 1, 1889. 
His children were George ^V., Rebecca R., Caroline Reily, Jose- 
phine, Emma and Elizabeth Reily. 

4. Henry Porter. 

5. Elizabeth Porter, was married to James M. Wheeler, of 
New Jersey. 

6. Horace Porter, of whom presently. 

Geoi'ge Bryan Porter, son of General Andrew and 
Elizabeth (Parker) Porter, was born February 9, 1791, 
and died at Detroit, Mich., July 18, 1834. He was 
graduated at the Law School at Litchfield, Conn., 
and admitted to the Lancaster County Bar in 1813. 
He became a leading lawyer, and was an acti\'e 
Democratic politician. He was appointed prothono- 
tary of Lancaster county in 1818, and became ad- 
jutant general of the state in 1824. In that year he 
inade the address of welcome at I Lancaster to La- 
fayette. He was elected a member of the Pennsyl- 
vania I^egislature from Lancaster county in 1827. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 445 

In 1882 he was appointed Governor of the Territory 
of Michigan, a position that he occupied at the time 
of his death. 

Issue : 

1. Andrew Porter, was born July 10, 1820, and died in 
Paris, France, January 3, 1872. He served in the Mexican 
War as first lieutenant of Mounted Rifles, U. S. A., and was 
promoted to be captain, May 15, 1847. He received the brevet 
rank of major for meritorious conduct at Contreras and Churu- 
busco, and of lieutenant-colonel for gallantry at Chapultepec. 
The outbreak of the Civil War found him colonel of the 16th 
Infantry, U. S. A., and he was appointed a brigadier-general 
of volunteers. May 17, 1861. He connnanded a brigade at 
Bull Run and when General Hunter was wounded took com- 
mand of the division. He was provost marshal of the Army of 
the Potomac, 1861-62, and of Washington, U. C, 1862-64. 
He was married (1), to Margaret Falconer Biddle, daughter of 
Major John Biddle, of Detroit, Mich., and (2), to Eliza Bradish, 
By his fii'st wife he had one son, John Biddle Porter. 

2. Sarah Louise Porter, was married to Oliver Phelps, son 
of Judge Oliver Phelps, of western New York. She had one 
son, Oliver, who married his cousin, Sarah Humes Porter 
Shissler. 

3. Rosa Porter, was married to Lewis Shissler, a lawyer at 
Galena, 111. She had one daughter, Sarah Humes Porter. 

4. Lafayette Porter. 

5. Humes Porter. 

James Madison Porter, son of General Andrew 
and Ehzabeth (Parker) Porter, was born January 6, 
1793, and died November 11, 1862. He studied law 
and was admitted to the Bar, April 24, 1813. In 
1818 he settled at Easton, where he practiced his 
profession with great success for more than forty 



446 thp: bard family 

years. He was a ineinber of the Constitutional Con- 
vention of Pennsylvania in 1838, and came within 
one vote of being president of that body. He was 
afterward President Judge of the judicial district 
comprising the counties of Dauphin, Lebanon and 
Schuylkill. He was Secretary of War in the cabinet 
of President Tyler, 1843-44, but in consequence of 
the bitter feeling against Tyler's administration, his 
nomination was rejected by the Senate. He was one 
of the founders of I^afayette College, Easton, and 
was president of its board of trustees for a quarter of 
a century. Mr. Porter was married to Eliza Michler, 
daughter of Peter Michler, of Easton, Pa. 

Issue ; 

1. Elizabeth Parker Porter. 

2. Harriet P. Porter. 

3. Anna M. Porter, deceased. 

4. Mary S. Porter, married Davis. 

5. James M. Porter. 

6. Andiew Parker Porter, died August 15, 1866. He was- 
graduated at the military academy, at West Point, in 1856, 
and served through the Civil War. He received the rank of 
brevet major, March 13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious 
service. 

7. Ennua W. Porter, married Isaac K. Grier. 

Ann Eliza Parker, daughter of Robert and PLliza- 
beth (Porter) Parker, was married to Robert Smith 
Todd, son of (Tcneral I^evi and Jane (Briggs) Todd.. 
He was born February 25, 1791, and died July 16,. 
1849. He was for many years clerk of the Kentucky 
house of representatives, and president of the branch 
bank of Kentucky, at Lexington, from its establish- 



THE BARD KINSHIP 447 

nient, in 1834, until his death. He was a member of 
the Kentucky house of representatives in 1841, 1842 
and 1844, and of the state senate, 1845-49. He was 
a candidate for reelection to the Senate at the time of 
his death. No man, of his time, occupied a liigher 
place in the social and political life of his state, or in 
the esteem of the business community. 

Issue : 

1. Elizabeth Parker Todd, was born November, 1813, and 
died February, 1888. She was married February 16, 1832, to 
Ninian Wirt Edwards, son of Ninian and Elvira (Lane) Edwards. 
He was an eminent lawyer in Illinois. Their children were 
Julian Cook, Albert S., Georgia, Elizabeth E., and Charles. 

2. Frances J. Todd, was born in 1817. She was married 
May 11, 1839, to William Smith Wallace, son of John and 
Lydia (Smith) Wallace, of Lancaster county, Pa. He was a 
physician, at Springfield, 111. In 1861, he was appointed a 
paymaster, U. S. A., by his brother-in-law, President Lincoln, 
and served until the close of the war. Their children were 
Elizabeth, Mary F., William F., Frances, Edward D., and 
Charles E. 

3. Mary Todd, was born December 12, 1818, and died at 
Springfield, 111., July 16, 1882. She was married November 4, 
1842, to Abraham Lincoln, son of Thomas and Nancy (Hanks) 
Lincoln. He was the sixteenth President of the United States. 
Their children were Robert Todd, William Wallace and Thomas. 

4. Ann Maria Todd, was married October 26, 1846, to C. 
M. Smith, of Springfield, 111., and had Clara, Edward, Allan, 
and Minnie. 

5. Levi Todd, died in 1865. He was married in 1845, to 
Louisa Series, and had Robert, Ellen, Louisa, and Susan. 

6. George Rogers Clarke Todd, became a physician and 
served as a sui'geon in the confederate army. 



448 THE BARD FAMILY 

Mr. Todd was married (2), to Elizabeth Humphreys, 
daughter of Dr. Alexander Humphreys, of Staunton, 
Va. She died February 8, 1874. Their children were 
Margaret, married Charles B. Kellogg; Samuel Briggs; 
(^ David Humphreys; Martha K., married C. B. White; 
/^i Emilie, married General Ben Hardin Helm ; Alexander 
B.; Elodie, married H. N. R, Dawson; and Catharine 
Bodley, married W. W. Herr, v'^/ 



IV 



TTORACE PORTER, son of David R. and Jose- 
-*"*- phine (McDermott) Porter, was born at Hunt- 
ingdon, Pa., April 15, 1837. He studied at the Law- 
rence Scientific Scliool, at Harvard, and was gradu- 
ated at the United States Mihtary Academy, at 
West Point, in 1860. After serving as an instructor 
in artillery, at the academy, he was ordered to duty 
with the army, at the beginning of the Civil War, as 
Chief of Artillery. He had charge of the batteries at 
the capture of Fort Pulaski, and was wounded in the 
first attempt to captiu-e Charleston. He served on 
the staff of General Rosecrans. He went through the 
Chickamauga campaign with the Army of the Cum- 
berland. When General (irant came east, Porter 
came with him as an aid-de-camp on his staff, with 
the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was with the 
Army of the Potomac in the campaign of 1864-65, 
from the Wilderness to Appomattox. He was brev- 
etted to be captain, U. S. A., for gallant and merito- 
rious service at the siege of Fort Pulaski, major at the 
AVilderness, and lieutenant-colonel at Newmarket 
Heights. For services during the war, he was made 
colonel and brigadier-general. After the war he made 
a series of tours, by (xeneral Grant's direction, through 
the south and on the Pacific coast. General Porter 
resigned from the army in 1873. He was Assistant 
Secretary of \^'^ar, while Grant was Secretary of the 
Interior, in the cabinet of President Johnson, and 

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450 THE BARD FAMILY 

was secretary to the President, during the first ad- 
ministration of General Grant. After leaving the 
army, General Porter became interested in railroad 
enterprises. He was manager of the Pullman Palace 
Car Company, in New York, and the first president 
of the Lake Shore Railroad. He was appointed Am- 
bassador to France, by President JNIcKinley, in 1897, 
a position in which he greatly distinguished himself. 
He is now a member of The Hague Peace Congress. 
General Porter is noted as a witty after-dinner 
speaker and for a man of affairs he has been a prolific 
writer. As early as 1866, he published "West Point 
Life," and in later years he has contributed many im- 
portant and valuable articles to the leading maga- 
zines. Among these, his accounts of General Grant's 
brilliant campaign from the Wilderness to Appomat- 
tox are especially noteworthy. 



SMITH 

rpHE SMITHS were of Scotch origin, but settled 
-*- in Ireland at the Plantation of Ulster. It is 
said that the family name was JMcDonald. The 
ancestor of the Smith family of Chester county, Pa., 
who was a farmer and blacksmith in Ireland, was the 
McDonald who adopted Smith as a sm-name. When 
King AVilliam III was on his way to Boyne water, 
his horse cast a shoe. McDonald, wiio lived in the 
neighborhood, replaced the shoe and thus enabled 
King William to reach the Boyne in time to assume 
command of his left wing and rout the army of King 
James. Because of this timely aid to his sovereign 
McDonald "the Smith" became Smith. 



(4.51) 



I 



TJOBERT SMITH, son of McDonald "the 
-*-*^ Sinith," was born near the waters of the Boyne, 
Ireland, and died at New I^ondon, Chester county. 
Pa., October, 1748, He emigrated to Pennsylvania 
about 1720. The name of his wife was Jean. After 
his death, his widow removed to Peters township, 
Cumberland, now Franklin county. Pa., with her 
children. 

Issue : 

1. Jonathan Smith, died at Aniboy, N. J., October 30, 
1776. He was a ruling elder of the l^pper West Conoco- 
cheague Presbyterian Church from December 19, 1767, until 
his death. He served with the "Flving Camp," probably with 
Colonel Allison's regiment, in 1776, and died in the service. 
His wife Jean died December, 1783; they had no children. 

2. James Smith, of whom presently. 

3. Robert Smith, of whom presently. 

4. Mary Smith, married William Smith, of whom presently. 

5. Jean Smith, was married June, 1761, to James Mc- 
Dowell, son of ^Villiam and Mary McDowell, early settlers at 
the base of Mt. Parnell. He was born in Chester county, Pa., 
in 17528, and died February 5, 1811. He was an associate 
judge of Franklin county, 1791 1811. Their children were 
Robert, James, William Smith, James, Mary, married Thomas 
Campbell; Annabelle, married John Johnston ; Jean, married 
(1), Isaac Bard, and (2), John Findlay; Sarah, married Daniel 
McLene ; and Margaret. 

James Smith, brother of the preceding, was born 
in Ireland, and died in Antrim township, Cumber- 



THE BARD KINSHIP 453 

land, now Franklin county, Pa., May, 1765. He was 
an early settler in the Conococheague Valley. His 
will was dated May 12, 1764, and proved at Carlisle, 
June 10, 1765. The name of his wife was Jennet. 

Issue : 

1. Margaret Smith, was married to Andrew Robison, a 
farmer of Antrim township, who died in 1794-95. Their 
children were Robert, Andrew, James, Margaret, Mary, Esther, 
Rebeckah and Jennet. 

2. Jean Smith, died unmarried in 1797. 

3. John Smith, was married and had a son James. 

4. William Smith, of whom {)resently. 

5. Robert Smith, of whom presently. 

6. Abraham Smith, of whom presently. 



II 



TAMES SMITH, son of Robert and Jean Smith, 
^ was born in Chester county. Pa., in 1737, and 
died in Bourbon county, Ky., in 1812. He was one 
of the first captives of the Frencli and Indian Why in 
1755. The story of liis captivity, written by himself 
for Loudon's "Narratives," has been reprinted in 
'• Border Life" and in part in "Our Western Border." 
It is by far the best account of the daily life of the 
American Indian ever written and earned for its 
author the name of "the untutored Defoe." His style 
was remarkable for quaintness, simplicity and direct- 
ness, and his narrative was replete witli the results 
of acute observation and illuminated by Hashes of 
vivid description. He escaped from his captors in 
1760, and returned to Conococheaoue after an 
absence of nearly five years. Soon after his return he 
organized a company of Indian fighters, who were 
dressed in the Indian fasliion and trained according 
to Indian methods. To these men was given the 
name of the "Black Boys," because they painted their 
faces in the Indian colors, red and black. This com- 
pany did excellent service in the defense of the fron- 
tier. Later he turned his company over to his lieu- 
tenant, and in 1704, received a lieutenant's commis- 
sion and went out with Bouquet's expedition on the 
iNIuskingum. In 1705, when the Indian traders were 
carrying arms and ammunition to the western sav- 
ages, who were then threatening hostilities. Captain 

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THE BARD KINSHIP 455 

Smith determined to prevent the trade. Hastily- 
gathering a number of his old "Black Boys. " he met 
the traders at Sideling Hill, and after routing them, 
destroyed their goods. Another exploit of his at this 
time was a siege of the English garrison at Fort Lou- 
don, which he brought to terms. He subsequently 
surprised Fort Bedford and released some of his 
"Black Boys" who were prisoners in the fort. In 
1769, he was tried on a charge of murder at Carlisle, 
but it was shown that he could not possibly have 
fired the fatal shot, and he was acquitted. After his 
acquittal he removed to Bedford county, now \^^est- 
moreland, and was captain of a ranging company in 
Dunmore's War in 1774. He was active in the 
Westmoreland county militia in 1775-70, and became 
major of the second battalion, Westmoreland County 
Associators. Major Smith was a member of the 
Pennsylvania Convention of 1776, and of the Assem- 
bly, 1776-77. While he was in the Assembly, he 
organized a scouting party, and went in aid of CtCU- 
eral Washington's army in the Jerseys. After the 
Revolution, he removed to Kentucky, where he 
served as a member of the Legislature. Colonel 
Smith was twice married. His first wife was Anna 
A\'^ilson, and his second wife,/ Mary Rogers . ^ ^ _^ 

Issue : 

1. Rebecca Smith. 

2. Elizabeth Smith. 

3. Robert Smith, had a son, J. ]M.,a Presbyterian minister. 

4. William Smith. 

5. James Smith, was married to Mary , and had 

John, Samuel and William. 



456 THE BARD FAMILY 

6. Jonathan Smith. 

7. Jane Smith. 

Robert Smith, son of Robert and Jean Smith, was 
born in Chester county. Pa. In 1769, soon after the 
rescue of the prisoners at Fort Bedford by Capt. 
James Smith and eighteen of his " Black Boys," Mr. 
Smith, in company with his brother. Captain James, 
and brother-in-law, James McDowell, started for the 
Youghigheny to survey some lands they had there. 
Robert Smith and McDowell entered the town of 
Bedford to have a horse shod. There they were 
arrested by Sheriff Holmes of Cumberland county, 
and held in confinement for some time, on suspicion 
of having been concerned in the Fort Bedford affair. 
He was married to Grizzel Newell, daughter of 
AVilliam Newell. 

Issue : 

1. James Smith, was married and had a son, Charles K., 
whose children were Marcella and Ellen A. 

2. Margaret Smith, was married October 30, 1782, to 
James Culbertson. 

3. Mary Smith, was baptized June 24, 1770. She was 
married to William Irwin. 

William Smith, son of James and Jennet Smith, 
was born in Chester county. Pa., and died at 
Mercersburg, Pa., March 27, 1775. As a young 
man, he came to the Conococheague \^alley, and as 
early as 1748, was lieutenant of Capt. Richard 
O'Caine's company, in Col. Benjamin Chambers' 
regiment. He removed to the neighborhood of 
Mercersburg soon after 1751. The site of the moun- 



THE BARD KINSHIP 457 

tain town, afterward known as Smith's or Smith's- 
Town, was then a frontier trading-post. The first 
settler was James Black, who built a mill there, and 
gave the incipient village the name of Black's- Town. 
Black's name is not on the list of taxables for 1751, 
but it may be assumed that Ann Black, who was a 
taxable, was his widow. Within a year or two the 
mill and trading-post had passed into the possession 
of Smith, who soon became the most prominent and 
active man on the frontier. In 1755, he was ap- 
pointed one of the commissioners to build the road 
from McDowell's Mill to the Three Forks of Youghi- 
gheny, intended to enable General Braddock to ob- 
tain supplies for his army. In this work he was very 
zealous. In 1757 the dissatisfaction of the magis- 
trates of Cumberland county with the provincial 
authorities was so great that the justices resigned. 
Among the new justices appointed July 13, 1757, 
was William Smith. He held office until January 
15, 1766, when he was superseded for participation 
in the affair at Fort I^oudon. The story is told in 
detail in the narrative of Col. James Smith, in " Bor- 
der Life," who was the brother-in-law of Justice 
Smith. While James Smith was in jail at Carlisle 
awaiting trial on a false charge of murder, William 
Smith wrote a manly and convincing letter to the 
" Pennsylvania Gazette," detaihng the circumstances 
attending the shooting and showing that the fatal 
shot could not have been fired by Captain Smith. 
This letter was printed in the " Gazette," November 
2, 1769, and is reprinted in full in Capt. James 
Smith's Narrative. He was a ruling elder of the 



^^Hfi-' 



458 THE BARD FAMILY 

Upper ^Vest Conococheagiie Presbyterian ehiireh 
from December 19, 1767, until his death. Mr. Smith 
was married to liis cousin, Mary Smith, daughter of 
Robert and Jean Smith. She was born in Chester 
county. Pa., and died at Mercersburg, Pa., February 
11, 1808. 

Issue : 

1. William Smith, of whom presently. 

2. Jane Smith, marned Samuel Findlav, of whom presently. 
'3. Rebecca Smith, married John Johnston, of whom 

])resentlv. 

4. Mary Smith, married Captain Robert Parker. (See 
Parker Family, ante.) 

5. Robert Smith, of whom presently. 

■'^'^ Robert Smith, son of James and Jennet Smith, 
died .lune, 1787. He was an early settler at Welsh 
Run. in what is now Montgomery township, Frank- 
lin county. Pa. The name of his wife was Catharine. 

Issue : 

1. Samuel Smith. 

2. Oliyer Smith. 

3. Isaac Smith. 

4. Margaret Smith. 

5. Aim Smith. 

6. Elizabeth Smith. 

Abraham Smith, son of James and Jennet Smith, 
was born in Chester county, Pa., and died in Frank- 
lin county, Pa., June 8, 1813. He was colonel of 
the eighth battalion, Cumberland County Associators, 
1777-80, and saw considerable active service. He 
was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly from 



THE BARD KINSHIP 459 

Franklin county, 1784-87; of the Supreme Execu- 
tive Council of Pennsylvania, 1787-90 ; and a state 
senator, 1790-94. 

Issue: 

1. Agnes Smith, niaiTiecl Walter Beatty, of whom presently. 

2. Rebecca Smith, married Major Jeremiah Talbot, of 
whom pi-esently. 

3. Samuel Smith, was born near Greencastle, Pa. He 
studied medicine and began his professional careei" at Bedford, 
Pa., but later removed to Cumberland, Md., where he was a 
leading physician until his death. 



Ill 



T\/"ILLIAM SMITH, son of William and Mary 
^ ^ (Smith) Smitli, was born at Mercersburg, Pa., 
about 1747, and died April, 178G. He inherited the 
site of Mercersburg, which he was engaged in laying 
out as a town at tlie time of liis death. He was 
married September 2, 1783, to Margaret Piper, 
daughter of William and Sarah (McDowell) Piper. 
She was born ^Vpril 8, 1765, and died February 20, 
1852. 

Issue : 

1. Sarah Smith, married John Bro\vnson,()f whom presently. 

After Mr. Smith's death, his widow married James 

Irwin. 

Jane Smith, daughter of AVilliam and Mary (Smith) 
Smitli, was born in 1749, and died June 9, 1783. Siie 
was married in 1765, to Samuel Findlay, son of 
Samuel and Elizabeth (Brown) Findlay. He was born 
in Philadelpliia in 1735, and died near Mercersburgv 
Pa., in 1804. He was brought to the Conococheague 
Valley, near Sliady Gro\e, by his mother in his 
infancy. Like his lialf-brotliers, the Johnstons, he 
was an ardent patriot during the Revolution and 
served as quartermaster of Col. Samuel Culbertson's 
battalion, Cumberland County Associators, 1777-78. 
He was a successful business man and acquired con- 
siderable property, all of wliich he directed should be 
sold after his death, except two tracts, one at the 
mouth of the Loyalhanna in Westmoreland county 

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THE BARD KINSHIP 461 

and the other on Plum Creek, Northumberland 
coimty, which he reserved for liis son Nathan, when 
he came of age. 

Issue : 

1. John Findlay, was born near Meicersbuig, Pa., March 
31, 1766, and died at Chambersburt^, November 5, 1838. He 
was colonel of the Franklin county regiment of militia which 
niarched to the defense of Baltimore in 1814, and was a Repre- 
sentative in Congress, 1821-27. He was married (1), March 
11, 1788, to Nancy Brownson, daughter of Dr. Richard and 
Mary (McDowell) Brownson. She was born in 1766, and died 
January, 1805. His second wife was Jane (McDowell) Bard, 
daughter of James and Jean (Smith) McDowell, and widow of 
Isaac BiU'd. He had seven children by his first wife: Jane, 
married John Maclav; Mary, married George P. Torrence; 
Rebecca, married Thomas Sloo; Elizabeth King; John; Samuel 
B.; and Eleanor Johnston, married Matthew Smith. 

2. William Findlay, was born near Mercersburg, Pa., June 
20, 1768, and died at Harrisburg, November 12, 1846. He 
.served in the Pennsylvania Legislature, and became State 
Treasurer in 1807. He was elected Governor in 1817, and was 
a Senator of the United States, 1821 27. He was married 
December 7, 1791, to Nancy Irwin, daughter of Archibald and 
Jean (McDowell) Irwin. She was born April 23, 1763, and 
died July 27, 1824. Their children were Samuel, Archibald 
Irwin, James, John King, Robert Smith, and Jane. Jane 
Findlay married Francis R. Shunk, who became Governor of 
Pennsylvania. 

3. James Findlay, was born near Mercersburg, Pa., in 1770, 
and died at Cincinnati, ()., Decendjer 21, 1835. He was mayor 
of Cincinnati, 1805-06, and 1810 11. He was colonel of a 
regiment in the War of 1812, and was present at Hulfs sur- 
render. He was a Representative in Congress, 1825-33. Find- 
lav, the county seat of Hancock county, ()., was named in his 



46J2 THE BARD FAMILY 

honor. He was married June 15, 1797, to Jane Irwin, a sister 
of the wife of his brother Wilhani. 

4. Jonathan Smith Findlay, was a journahst. He was mar- 
ried to H. Dargent; they had Margaret, James, William, 
Charles, and Henrv. 

5. Samuel Findlay, was baptized July 11, 1773, and died 
young. 

6. Robert Findlay, was baptized March -3, 1776, and died 
January, 1778. 

7. Thomas Findlay, was born Decendjer 15, 1780, and 
died Septendier 17, 1852. He was a merchant in Baltimore in 
partnership with Ebenezer Finley, and was appointed post- 
master of Baltimore by President Harrison in 1841. He was 
married to Anna Perry Bell. She was born in 1787, and died 
October 8, 1837. Their children were Sylvester Larned, 
Thomas, Alexander, James, John William, Elizabeth Marga- 
retta, William Reynolds, Amelia Fi'azer, Robert S., Mary Jane,. 
and Ann Rebecca. 

8. Nathan Findlay, was baptized June 5, 1783. He was 
married to Frances Stanberg. 

Samuel Findlay 's father, also Samuel P'indlay, was a 
native of Ireland, who died in Philadelphia soon after 
his marriage. His mother, Elizabeth Brown, was a 
daughter of Cornet Brown, who was active in the 
defense of Londonderry in 1688. In her widowhood, 
she was married to Major James Johnston, who was 
among the first settlers of Antrim township, in what is 
now Franklin county. Pa., and she became the mother 
of the four Johnston brothers, James, Thomas, Robert 
and John, all distinguished in the Revolution. 

Rebecca Smith, daughter of William and Mary 
(Smith) Smith, was married November 3, 1772, to 
John Johnston, son of James and Elizabeth (Brown) 



THE BARD KINSHIP 463 

Johnston. He was born in 1747, and died at Salts- 
burg, Pa.. October 21, 182(). He inlierited a part of 
the old Johnston plantation, near Greencastle, Pa., 
under his father's will. He Mas major of Colonel 
Abraham Smith's battalion, Cumberland County 
Associators, 1777 80, and was commissioned major 
of the first battalion, May 10, 1780. He was chosen 
coroner of Franklin county, in 1785, and was shei'iff, 
1787-90. He afterwards removed to Westmoreland, 
now Indiana county. Pa. 

Issue : 

1. William Johnston. 

2. Robert Johnston. 

S. Elizabeth Johnston, died unmarried. 
4. James Johnston. 

Major Johnston was married (2), August 21, 1782, to 
Annabelle McDowell, daughter of James and Jean 
(Smith) McDowell. She was born December 24, 1763, 
and died December 22, 1807. Their children were 
Samuel, John, Thomas, Jane, married Andrew Boggs; 
Rebecca, married Andrew Work; George W., and Mary 
S., married William Smith. 

Robert Smitli, son of William and Mary (Smith) 
Smith, was born at Mercersburg, Pa., in 1766, and 
died April 2, 1849. He was auditor of Franklin 
county, 1805-07; a member of the Legislature, 
1807-09, 1811-14 and 1815, and speaker, 1813; state 
senator, 1819-23 ; and associate judge, 1836-43. Mr. 
Smith was married November 16, 1790, to Elizabeth 
Irwin, daughter of Archibald and Jean (McDowell) 
Irwin. She was born at Irwinton Mills, August 24, 
1767, and died March 20, 1814. 



464 THE BARD FAMILY 

Issue : 

1. Jane Smith, inarried Dr. Alexander T. Dean, of whom 
presently. 

52. William Smith, of whom presently. 

3. Sarah Smith, married John Findlay, of whom presently. 

Agnes Smitli, daughter of Colonel Abraham 
Smith, died September 15, 1822. She was married 
March 3, 1781, to Walter Beatty, son of Henry and 
Catharine Beatty. He was born at Cookstown, 
County Tyrone, Ireland, and died at Chambers burg. 
Pa., August 11, 1821. He served in Captain Samuel 
Holliday's marching company, of Colonel Samuel 
Culbertson's battalion, in the campaign around Phila- 
delphia, in 1777. He was a contractor and builder, 
and built the first courthouse in Chambersburg. 

Issue: 

1. Harriet Beatty, died young. 

2. Martha Beatty, died August 2, 1823. 

3. Samuel Smith Beatty, was born January 19, 1789, and 
died April 4, 1847. 

4. Ruth Beattv, twin sister of Sanuiel S., died December 3, 
1869. 

5. Walter Beatty, was born April 12, 1795, and died in 
Chambersburg, Pa., January 7, 1879. He was married March 
25, 1838, to Margaret Tweed, who was born at Larne, Ireland, 
in 1805, and died in Chambersburg, Pa., March 24, 1899. 

6. Ann Smith Beatty, was born November 12, 1798, and 
died September 1, 1876. 

According to tradition, Mr. Beatty's father, Henry 
Beatty, a native of County Tyrone, was married in Ire- 
land, where his children were born. He determined to 
emigrate to Pennsylvania and, leaving his wife and 



THE BARD KINSHIP 465 

children behind him, came to the Cumberland Valley, 
where he died before his wife Catharine and their chil- 
dren were able to join him. The family came to An- 
trim township, Cumberland, now Franklin county, with 
their mother. The children were William, James, Eliz- 
beth (Mrs. Lennox), Margaret (Mrs. Fallon), Walter, 
John, and Henry. 

Rebecca Smith, daughter of Colonel Abraham 
Smith, died September 19, 1815. She was married to 
Jeremiah Talbot, who died in Chambersburg, Pa., 
January 19, 1791. He was one of the distingished 
soldiers of the Revolution from the Cvmiberland 
Valley. He raised a company, mostly from tlie AVest 
Conococheague, in the winter of 1 775-7 (J, and was 
commissioned captain in the 6th Pennsylvania bat- 
talion, January 9, 1776. He served in the second 
Canada expedition. When the battalion was reorgan- 
ized, in 1777, and became the 7th regiment. Penn- 
sylvania Line, he remained with his company, but 
was promoted to be major of the 6th regiment, 
September 22, 1777; he served until January 1, 1781. 
Major Talbot was the first sheriff of Franklin 
county, 1784-87. 

Issue : 

1. Hillary Talbot, was married in Missouri to Mrs. Bennett. 

2. Elizabeth Talbot, married Dr. James Martin. 

3. Mary Smith Talbot, was born 1782, and died April 12, 
1836. 



DD 



IV 

^ ARAH SMITH, daughter of William and INlar- 
'^ garet (Piper) Smith, was born at Mercersburg, 
Pa., Jmie, 1784, and died July 25, 1859. She was 
married October 7, 1807, to John Brownson, son of 
Dr. Richard and Mary (McDowell) Brownson. He 
was born in Peters township, Cumberland, now 
Franklin county, Pa., in 1768, and died at Mercers- 
burg, Pa., February 20, 1836. He was a soldier of 
the War of 1812, and a prominent officer in the 
Pennsylv^ania militia. 

Issue : 

1. Margaret Brownson, was baptized February, 1813. She 
was married July 18, 1855, to John McDowell. 

2. Nancy Brownson, was baptized May 9, 1814, and died 
in infancy. 

3. Richard Brownson, was baptized February 25, 1816, and 
died in infancy. 

4. James Irwin Bi'ownson, was born March 14, 1817, and 
died at Washington. Pa. He was graduated at Washington 
College in 1836, and at the Western Theological Seminary ill 
1840. He became a distinguished minister of the Presbyterian 
Church. He was married (1) May 14, 1843, to Sarah Ellen 
Maclay, and (2) January 9, 1855, to P^leanor McCullough 
Acheson. By his first wife, he had John Maclay, Elliott C, 
Sarah Smith, Ellen Maclay, and Mary R., and by his second 
wife, James I., Marcus A., Robert M., Alexander Acheson, 
Mary W., Margaret McK. and Loretta Morgan. 

5. John Brownson, was baptized October 17, 1819, and 
died in infancy. 

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THE BARD KINSHIP 467 

6. Nathan Asa Biownson, was baptized September 2,1821, 
and died in infancy. 

7. Sarah Jane Brownson, was baptized April 13, 1823, and 
died July 22, 1843. 

8. Marv Elizabeth Brownson, was baptized May 13, 1826, 
and died in infancy. 

9. Robert Smith Brownson, was born in 1827, and died 
June 15, 1885. He was graduated at Marshall College, Mer- 
cersburg, Pa., in 1847, and at the Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania in 1851. He practiced his pro- 
fession at Mercersburg. He was commissioned captain of Com- 
pany C, 126th Pennsylvania Volunteers, August 11, 1862, and 
promoted to be major, March 9, 1863. He was married to 
Mary Covle, daughter of A. L. Coyle, of Mercersburg, Pa. 

Mr. Brownson's father. Dr. Ricliard Brownson, died 
March 25, 1790. He was a nephew of Dr. Nathan 
Brow nson. Deputy Purveyor of Hospital for the South- 
ern Army and Governor of Georgia. Befin'e the Revo- 
lution he came to Peters township, Cumberland, now 
Franklin county, Pa., where he practiced medicine. He 
was surgeon to Colonel Samuel Culbertson''s battalion, of 
Cumberland County Associators, 1777 80. Di-. Brown- 
son w as married to Mary ^IcDow ell, daughter of John 
and Agnes (Craig) McDowell, of McDoweirs Mill. She 
was born in 1743, and died April 22, 1833. Their 
children were John, Nathan, Timothy, Asa, Nancy, 
Elizabeth and Abigail. 

Jane Smith, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth 
(Irwin) Smith, was born April 30. 1792, and died 
April 29. 1827. She was married April 7. 1815, to 
Alexander Tracy Dean, who was born in Hunting- 
don county. Pa., in 1788, and died at Harrisburg, 
November 4, 18J34. He began the practice of medi- 



468 THE BARD FAMILY 

cine at Mercersburg. He was first sergeant of Cap- 
tain Thomas Bard's company which marched to the 
defense of Baltimore in 1814. In 1815, lie removed 
to Chambersburg, where he practiced thirteen years, 
1815-28. In the latter year he removed to Harris- 
burg, where he continued in the practice of his pro- 
fession until his death. 

Issue : 

1. Elizabeth Dean, was l)orn April 28, 1816, and died 
September 7, 1817. 

2. Mary Ann Dean, was born at Chambersburg, Pa., 
August 19, 1819, and died in 1845. She was married to Wil- 
liam Young, a physician, and had William, Alexander Dean 
and Anna Marv. 

3. Robert Smith Dean, was born at Chambersburg, Pa., 
February 1, 1822, and died at New Orleans, October, 1867. 
He was graduated at Marshall College, Mercersbiu'g, in 1839, 
and was a lawyer at Cincinnati, Ohio. 

William Smith, son of Robert and Elizabeth 
(Irwin) Smith, was horn at Mercersburg, Pa., Decem- 
ber 26, 1796, and died October 15, 1846. He was a 
corporal in Chaplain Thomas Bard's company in 1814. 
He was married November 4, 1818, to Mary Smith 
Johnston, daughter of Major John and Annabelle 
(McDowell) Johnston. She died August 14. 1840. 

Issue : 

1. Elizabeth Irwin Smith, was born September 2, 1820, 
and died at Gettysburg, Pa., November 26, 1899. She was 
married October 24, 1844, to John S. Crawford, son of Dr. 
AVilliam Crawford, of Getty sl)urg. Pa. She was his second 
wife. They had four children: William H., Robert Smith, 
George Douglass and Mary Johnston, married John M. Krauth. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 469 

J2. YVilliain Johnston Smith, died at Woodburn, Iowa, 
February 28, 1875. He was married to Rebecca M. Work, 
daughter of Samuel Johnston Work, and had William Work, 
Samuel Johnston, Mary Rebecca and Anna Lizzie. 

3. John Johnston Smith, was born in 1823, and died 
August, 1827. 

4. Mary Parker Smith, was l)()rn September, 1825, and 
died December 10, 1830. 

5. Annabella Smith, was married to Rev. Samuel H. Giesy, 
minister of the Reformed Church, and had Harry, Ann and 
Mary E. 

6. Jane Smith, died at Gettysburg, Pa. 

7. Robert Smith, was born March, 1828, and died August 
24, 1828. 

8. Sarah Rebecca Smith, was born December, 1838, and 
died May 5, 1841. 

9. James Findlav Smith, was born June, 1844, and died 
July 13, 1844. 

Sarah Smith, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth 
(Irwin) Smith, was born October 10, 1803, and died 
December 9, 1856. She was married November 29, 
1824, to John Findlay, son of Colonel John and 
Nancy (Brownson) Findlay. He was born August, 
1799, and died at Chambersburg, Pa., October 14, 
1832. He was register and recorder and clerk of the 
Orphans' Court of Franklin county, 1824 30. 

Issue : 

1. (A son), was born April 8, 1837, and died in infancy. 

2. John Findlay, was born June 26, 1828, and died 
December 29, 1832. 

3. Robert Smith Findlay, was born March 28, 1832, and 
died at Osceola, Iowa, August 3, 1900. He served in Company 
C, 126th Pennsylvania Volunteers. In 1868, he went to Wood- 



470 THE BARD FAMILY 

burn, Clark county, Iowa. He was married September 14, 1876, 
to Emma J. Lash, daughter of James Lash, of Mt. Pleasant, 
Iowa., and had John Torrence, William Perry, Robert Smith, 
James Lash, Elizabeth Rice, Emma Lash, Anna Marv, and 
Grace Rice. 

4. Elizabeth Findlay, was born December 8, 1825, and 
died in Iowa. She was married December 21, 1852, to Perry 
A. Rice, who was born at Frederick, Md., in 1822, and died in 
Libby Prison, February 23, 1863. He was graduated at Mar- 
shall College in 1846, and admitted to the Franklin County 
Bar, November 2, 1848. He settled at Mercersburg, where he 
conducted the Mercersburg "Journal'''' and served as justice of 
the peace. When the confederates, under General J. E. B. 
Stuart, made the famous raid ai-ound McClellan's army in 1862, 
Mr. Rice was taken from his home and carried to Richmond. 
Their children were John Findlay, Thomas Williard, Robert 
Smith Findlav, William Perry, and Sarah Findlay. 



LITTLE 
I 

I^ASPER LITTLE, the ancestor of the Little 
^^ family, of Mount Joy township, Adams county, 
Pa., was probably born in or near JNIanheim, in 
Baden, Germany, and died in JNlount Joy township, 
York, now Adams county, Pa., in October or No- 
vember, 1783. He emigrated to Pennsylvania, on the 
ship "Lesbie," landing at Philadelphia, October 7, 
1749. Some of the passengers on this ship were from 
Zweibrucken, Switzerland, but most of them came 
from the neighborhood of Manheim. A coat of arms 
in Siebmacher's "Wappenbuch" shows tliat the 
Kleins were a prominent family, in Baden, previous 
to the immigration of Casper Klein. In accordance 
with the policy of the province of Pennsyhania, 
Casper Klein, soon after his arrival, changed the 
German name Klein to its English equivalent. Little. 
As Casper Little, he was ensign of Captain William 
Gibson's associated company, of York county, in 
1756. These associated companies were emergency 
organizations formed for the defense of the frontier 
against the Indians, soon after Braddock's defeat. 
Mr. Little was a farmer and settled near the village 
of Two Taverns, in what is now Mount Joy town- 
ship, xVdams county, Pa. There is reason to believe 
that he was twice married. The name of his first wife 
has not been ascertained. His second wife, Susanna, 

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472 THE BARD FAMILY 

survived him many years and probably died in Ha- 
gerstown, Md., about 1826. 

Issue bv his first wife : 

1. John Little, died in 1805. 

2. An(h-evv Little, of whom presently. 

3. Henry Little, of whom presently. 

4. David Little, died in 1806. The name of his wife was 
Rachel. Their children were Elias, David, Andrew, Elizabeth, 
and Susan. ^ 

5. Veronica Little. 

6. Samuel Little, was a resident in Mount Joy township, 
in 1799. 

7. George Little. 

Issue by his second wife: 

1 . Joseph Little, of whom presently. 

2. Susanna Little. 

3. Adam Little. 

4. Catharine Little, married Frederick Miller, of whom 
presently. 

5. Jacob Little, was born near Two Taverns, York, now 
Adams county, Pa., in 1775, and died in Baltimore, Md., in 
1826. He left his estate to his sister, Catharine Miller, for her 
care of his aged mother, and to his niece, Susanna Little, daugh- 
ter of his brother. Dr. Petei* W. Little. His wardrobe was left 
to his brother, Dr. Little, if he would accept it. 

6. Hannah Little, married William Runkel, of whom 
presently. 

7. Peter Washington Little, of whom presently. 



II 



A NDREW LITTLE, son of Casper Little, by 
-^^^ his first wife, was a soldier of the Revolution, 
serving as fifer in Captain Hugh Campbell's company, 
of Colonel Robert McPherson's battalion, York 
county militia, in 1776. He was a farmer in Mount 
Joy township, Adams county. Pa., near Two Taverns. 
The surname of Mr. Little's wife was Knight. 

Issue : 

1. Andrew Little, of whom presently. 

2. Richard Little, was married to Mrs. Margaret Ashbaugh, 
whose maiden name was Ogden. They had two children: Cath- 
arine Polly, who married Henry Gerlach, and Robert Aquilla, 
who died unmarried. 

3. Catharine Little, was born February 28, 1 787, and died 
January 29, 1864. She was married January 5, 1809, to Henry 
Heagen, who was born May 15, 1786, and died November 11, 
1848. Their children were Nelson, Henry, John W., Mary, 
married Rev. Joseph Sherfy; Catharine, married August 31, 
1820, Robert Linn; Anne F.; Amanda, married (1), George 
Droup, and (2), Daniel Peters; Esther Alvina, married Wes- 
ley Bertman; and Susanna, married (1), Charles Quantrill, and 
(2), David Reiffe. 

4. Anna Little. 

5. Martha Little. 

6. Sarah F. Little, was born April 10, 1793, and died 
November 8, 1886. She was married to Victor Hause, who 
was born in 1793, and died May 9, 1861. Their children, 
among others, were Margaret J. and Cassandra. 

7. Jemima Little, was married to Sourbier. 

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474 THE BARD FAMILY 

8. Jessie Little, was born February 28, 1797. He was 
married to Margaret Grier. 

9. Margaret Little, was married to George. 

10. Elizabeth Little, was born November 2, 1807, and 
died April 15, 1895. She was married to Andrew Banker, of 
Chambersburg, Pa. Their children were Jacob, Maria, Sarah 
and Marv Catharine. 

Henry Little, son of Casper Little by his first 
wife, died in 1810. He served in Captain Hugh 
Campbell's company of Colonel Robert JNlcPherson's 
battalion, York county militia, in 1776. He was 
married to JNIagdalena I^ittle, daughter of Frederick 
and Dorothy I^ittle. They had five sons and five 
daughters. His will was proved in Adams county, 
Pa., January 7, 1811. The names of only four of his 
children are mentioned in his will. 

Issue : 

1. Jacob Little, was born March, 1786, and died August 
13, 1859. The name of his wife was Sophia. She was born in 
1814, and died November 26, 1857. 

2. Henry Little, died January or P'ebruary, 1860. His 
wife was Mary. Their children were Catharine, Sarah, Susanna, 
Mary Ann, P^li/abeth, Julian, and Henry. 

3. David Little, was born February 8, 1793, and died Jan- 
uary 4, 1864. He was married April 9, 1816, to Marv Hoke, 
daughter of Jacob Hoke. She was born Januarv 1, 1792, and 
died October 16, 1862. 

4. Mary Little, died before her father. 

Mrs. I^ittle^s grandfather was Ludwig Little, born Klein, 
a native of Germany, who died at or near Littlestown, 
in 1786. He emigrated to Pennsylvania, in the ship 
"Samuel," landing at Philadelphia, August 30, 1737. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 475 

He settled in what is now Germany township, Adams 
county, Pa. The name of his wife was Mary Eva. Their 
children were Peter, Frederick, and Margaret (Mrs. 
Franciscus). 

Peter Little, son of Ludwig' and Mary Eva Little, was 
born January 27, 1724, and died April 7, 1783. He 
obtained a patent, September 18, 1760, for 311 acres 
of land in Germany townsiiip, York, now Adams 
countv, on which he laid out the town of Petersburg, in 
1765. According to the original plan it consisted of 
fifty-seven lots, 66x254 feet. Each purchaser was re- 
quired to build a dwelling house eighteen feet square 
within three years. Although the deeds recited that it 
was to be called Petersburg forever, the German part of 
the population named it "Kleina Stedtle" from the out- 
set, and it soon became known in English as "Peter 
Little''s town.'"" Then the name Peter was dropped, and 
the village took its present name of Littlestown. This 
confusion led to a blunder in Appleton's "Cyclopedia of 
American Biography," that has in it something of the 
irony of fate, Peter's Klein's son, Peter Little, of jMary- 
land, being described as born at Petersburg, Hunting- 
don county. Pa. On his tombstone the name of the 
founder of Littlestown is Peter Klein. He was married 
to Ursula Schreiver. Their children were Barbara, 
Michael, Catharine, Mary, Elizabeth, Susanna, Ludwig, 
Joseph and Peter. Peter Little was born at Littlestown, 
in 1773, and died in Baltimore county, Md., February 
5, 1830. He was a representative in Congress, 1811- 
13, and 1817-29. He was colonel of the 28th United 
States infantry, in the War of 1812. 
Mrs. liittle's father, Frederick Little, son of Ludwig 
and Mary Eva Little, was born in 1737, and died 
August 15, 1811. His wife, Dorothy, was born in 



476 THE BARD FAMILY 

1739, and died September J24, 1825. Their children 
were Anna Mary, Elizabeth, Barbara, Frederick, Mag- 
dalena, Catharine, Dorothy, Hannah, David, and 
Susanna. 

Joseph T^ittle, son of Casper and Susanna Little, 
was born in 1760, and died in Hagerstown, Md., 
December 31, 1846. He served in Captain Andrew 
Forman's company, guarding British prisoners, at 
York, Pa., in 1781. He was a plow and wagon-maker, 
in Hagerstown, 1805-15. JNlr. Little was married to 
Esther Baird, daughter of Major William Baird, of 
Hagerstown. 
Issue : 
1. William Little. 

Mrs, Little's father. Major William Baird, died at Ha- 
gerstown, Md., May 11, 1791. He was an officer in 
Braddock's unfortunate expedition, in 1755, and be- 
came a very prominent man in the community in which 
he lived. He was a member of the Marvland Provincial 
Convention, for the upper district of Frederick, now 
Washington county, December 18, 1775. He was 
coroner of Washington county from its organization, 
and was a magistrate for many years. At the time of 
his death he owned lands in Virginia, North Carolina 
and Kentucky. He was twice married. The name of 
his first wife has not been ascertained. His second wife 
was Margaret Reynolds, a Avidow. She died August 27, 
1800. By his first wife he had a son, William, and a 
daughter, Esther. By his second marriage he had three 
daughters, Ruth (Mrs. Wallace), and Fannie and Mar- 
garet, who were minors at the time of his death. 

Catharine Little, daughter of Casper and Susanna 
Little, was born in 1773, and died in Hagerstown, 



THE BARD KINSHIP 477 

Md. She was married to Dr. Frederick JNIiller, who 
was born in 1752, and died in Hagerstown, Md., No- 
vember, 1833. He settled in Hagerstown, in 1789, 
and was the first druggist in that place. He w^as a 
member of the firm of liittle (S: Miller, 1800-05, 
Jacob I^ittle, his l)rother-in-law, being his partner. 

Issue : 

1. Hennetta Miller, was married to Joshua P. Crist; they 
liad no chilch'en. 

Hannah IJttle, daughter of Casper and Susanna 
Little, was born in 1770, and died of cholera, at Ger- 
mantown. Pa., in 1832. She was married at Cham- 
bersburg, Pa., February 7, 1799. by the Rev. M. 
Stock, to William Runkel, son of the Rev. John 
William and Catharine (Neiz) Runkel, who studied 
medicine and practiced his profession at (Tcrmantown, 
Pa. He lived in the Nutz house, in Main street, that 
was once the home of Count Balusky, a French emi- 
grant of the Reign of Terror. He was captain of the 
Ciermantown Blues, and served at Camp Dupont, in 
1812. He commanded the Northern I^iberty Guards, 
in the battalion of Major Samuel Sparks, in the ser- 
vice of the United States, from September 16 to De- 
cember 31, 1814. He was clerk of the Orphan's 
Court of Philadelphia, 1825-29. 

Issue : 

1. John Wilhehn Runkel, was born March 22, 1805. 

2. Theodore Lilienthal Runkel, was born April 25, 1808. 
He was a physician. 

3. Edwin Runkel, was born March 4, 1811. 

4. Catharine Runkel. 



478 THE BARD FAMILY 

5. Levesa Lassiiia Ruiikel, was born March 2'3, 1814. 

6. Aletha Malvina Ruiikel, was bom July 19, 1815. 

Dr. Runker.s father, Rev. John Wilh'ani Runkel, was 
l)orn at Oberengelheini, in the Palatinate, April 28, 
1749, and died November 5, 183f^. He came to Penn- 
sylvania with his parents, VVendel and Julia Ann 
(Wertzel) Runckle, in 1764. He began to study for the 
ministry of the Reformed Church in 1774, and in 1777, 
before he was ordained, he was given charge of the 
churc-hes at Shippensburg, Carlisle, Trindle's Spring and 
Hummelstovvn. In 1781, he was called to the Lebanon 
charge, which included a number of congregations in 
Lancaster county, and was called to the Frederick, Md., 
charge in 1784, where he remained until 1802, when he 
accepted a call to Germantown, Pa. He was pastor of 
the churches forming the Gettysburg, Ennnittsburg 
and Taney town charge, 1815-22. He preached fre- 
quently afterward, but owing to his advanced years 
accepted no regular charge. Mr. Runkel was married 
June 5, 1770, to Catharine Neiz, daughter of John 
Henry Neiz, who emigrated to Pennsylvania on the 
ship "Richmond,"" landing at Philadelphia, October 5, 
1763. She died August 12, 1820. Their children were 
Margaret, William and John. 

John Runkel, son of John William and Catharine 
Runkel, was born February 22, 1786, and died April 
19, 1880. In early life he was a nn'nister of the Re- 
formed Church, but afterward practiced medicine at 
Gettysburg, Pa. He was married to Elizabeth Rupp, 
and had one daughter, Anna Runkel, who is living at 
Gettysbing at an advanced age. 

Peter V^^ashington I.<ittle, son of C^asper and Sus- 
anna Little, was born February 13, 1784, and died 



THE BARD KINSHIP 479 

July 1, 1848. His birth was after his father's death. 
In the application for the appointment of a guardian 
for the children of Casper I^ittle, in York county. Pa., 
his age is given as four years. This may have been a 
guess of the lawyer or of his eldest brother, John 
Little. His early years were spent at Hagerstown, 
Md., where he was educated, and he studied medicine 
under the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Rush, the emi- 
nent physician of Philadelphia and signer of the 
Declaration of Independence. After his marriage, he 
settled at Mercersburg, Pa., where he practiced his 
profession for many years. He was a man of fine at- 
tainments and a skillful physician. He was post- 
master at Mercersburg, 1822-27, nnd a trustee of 
Marsliall College, and secretary of the board, 1836— 
38. Dr. Little was married September 26, 1808, to 
Mary Smith Parker, daughter of Captain Robert and 
Mary (Smith) Parker. She w^as born April 5, 1788, 
and died August 26, 1848. 

Issue : 

1. Susanna Little, married George B. Porter, of vvlioni 
presently. 

2. Mary Parker Little, married David Zeller, of whom 
presently. 

3. Elizabeth Smith Little, married Robert M. Bard. (See 
"Descendants of Richard Bard.") 

4. Robert Parker Little, of whom presently. 

5. Louisa Catharine Little, married George W. Williard, of 
whom presently. 

6. Nancy Jane Findlay Little, was born August 20, 1826, 
and died October 24, 1895. 

7. Benjamin Rush Little, of whom pi-esently. 



A 



III 



NDREW LITTLE, son of Andrew and 

— — ■ (Knight) Little, was born March 17, 

1784, and died December 22, 1845. He removed 
from Adams to Frankhn county, and settled near the 
village of St, Thomas. He was married to Mary 
Grier. She was born December 31, 1801, and died 
October 6, 1862. 

Issue: 

1. George Grier Little, was born March 22, 1824, and 
died December 17, 1880. 

2. Edmund H. Little, was born January 9, 1827, and died 
November 24, 1864. In the Civil War, he served in the Sixth 
Pennsylvania Reserves. 

3. Thaddeus Stevens Little, was horn April 1, 1828, and 
died in Mississippi, November 23, 1895. 

4. Jesse Little, was boin April 9, 1832, and went tt) West 
Point, Miss. He was married to Rebecca Charlton. 

5. Benjamin Franklin Little, was born July 24, 1834, and 
died in Illinois, February 20, 1856. 

6. Louisa Little, was born April 30, 1837. She was married 
September 21, 1852, to Jose})h Warren Seibert, son of Samuel 
and Agnes AVelsh (Grove) Seibert, of Chambersburg, Pa. 
Their children were Barnard, born September 13, 1856, and 
died September 23, 1856; Mary Virginia, married Howard B. 
McNultv; Charles Fremont, born November 24, 1860, and 
died July 19, 1861; Rebecca Louisa, born August 29, 1862; 
and Edward G., born August 28, 1865, a physician in Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

7. Jemima Hause Little, was born April 30, 1837, and 
died July 29, 1873. She was married to Lodiska Hall. 

(480) 



THE BARD KINSHIP 481 

Susanna Little, daughter of Dr. Peter W. and 
Mary S. (Parker) I^ittle, was born at Mercersburg, 
Pa., July 18, 1809, and died May 5, 1839. She was 
married December 8, 1835, to Rev. George B. Por- 
ter, a Presbyterian minister. 

Issue : 

1. Cephas Little Porter, was born June 10, 1837, and died 
March 19, 1872. 

Mary Parker Little, daughter of Dr. Peter W. 
and Mary S. (Parker) Little, was born January 9, 
1811, and died December 28, 1856. She was married 
March 27, 1846, to David Zeller, who was born Feb- 
ruary 15, 1812, and died March 9, 1884. He was a 
commission merchant at Hagerstown, Md. 

Issue : 

1. Mary Parker Zeller, was born March 18, 1849, and 
died September 15, 1849. 

2. Harrie McKeen Zeller, was born January 14, 1851. 

3. William Melville Zeller, was born December 22, 1852. 
He was married November 24, 1885, to Martha Bender. 

Robert Parker Little, son of Dr. Peter W. and 
Mary S. (Parker) Little, was born January 31, 1817, 
and died March 17, 1856. He was graduated at Mar- 
shall College, Mercersburg, Pa., in 1839. He removed 
to Columbus, Ohio. He was married June 5, 1849, 
to Cynthia D. Scarrett, of New Hampshire. 

Issue : 

1. William Parker Little, was born June 5, 1850. 

Louisa Catharine Little, daughter of Dr. Peter W. 
and Mary S. (Parker) Little, was born August 26, 

EE 



482 THE BARD FAMILY 

1820, and died September 10, 1863. She was married 
April 20, 1841, to George Washington AVilhard. 
He was born June 10, 1817, and died at Dayton, 
Ohio, in 1 900. He was graduated at Marshall College, 
Mercersburg, Pa., in 1838, and at the Reformed The- 
ological Seminary, in 1840. 

Issue : 

1. Cephas Little WilHard, was born March 30, 1842, and 
died February 13, 1868. He was married November 28, 1866, 
to Anna M. Gibbes. 

2. John Newton Williard, was born September 3, 1843. 
He was married December 24, 1867, to Lydia Hibble. Their 
children were Reuben Hershman, born June 9, 1869; Minnie, 
born March 6, 1871 ; Maria Louisa, born September 6, 1873; 
and George Washington, born February 19, 1876. 

3. George Parker AVilliard, was born July 1, 1845. He 
was married February 16, 1881, to Lettie A. Stout. 

4. Edward Rush Williard, was born December 25, 1852. 
He was married April 4, 1877, to Helen Maria Putnam, who 
was born June 1, 1857. 

5. Mary Louisa Williard, was born January 12, 1856, and 
died July 17, 1856. 

Benjamin Rush Little, son of Dr. Peter W. and 
Mary S. (Parker) Little, was born at Mercersburg, 
Pa., March 8, 1829, and died at the St. Charles Hotel, 
Keokuk, Iowa, December 7, 1857. He was graduated 
at Marshall College, ^lercersburg, in 1847, and be- 
came a physician. He was married April 23, 1856, to 
Anna IVlary Schley, daughter of David and Georgiana 
(Clem) Schley, of Frederick, Md. She was born Sep- 
tember 13, 1833, and died May 10, 1860. They had 
no children. 



INDEX 



A CHRONICLE OF THE BARDS 



Abercom, Earl of, 61. 

Abercrummie, 21-23. 

Acton, Charlotte, 31; Henry, 31. 

Ailsa, Archibald, Marques of, 18, 19. 

Aird, Margaret, 32. 

Alexander II of Scotland, 14. 

AUoway, Lord, 31. 

Amedio, Count of Savoy, 3. 

Anderson, Alexander, 27. 

Aosta, Viscount of, 2. 

Arbuthnot, Andrew, 27. 

Archdeacon, Edmund, 53. 

Argyll, Earl of, 94. 

Armistead, Mary, 74. 

Ashe, General, 17. 

Aubert, 7. 

Bahr, Frantz, 82; Wilhelm, 82. 

Bahrt, 115. 

Baikie, Janet, 16. 

Baird, 1, 10, 20, 27-30, 33, 34, 47, 61, 
77-79, 81, 92, 108, 135. 

Bairds of Avichmedden, 11, 15, 20, 25, 
26, 28, 34, 43, 80, 136; Aughtermoy, 
59; Ayrshire, 27; Closeburn, 30, 31; 
Cowdam, 30, 31; Kilhenzie, 20, 23, 
25-28, 43, 45, 136; Lochwood, 30; 
New Jersey, 83; North of Ireland, 
135; Saughton Hall, 15, 16; Stich- 
ell and Strichen, 30; West Jersey, 
90. 

Baird, Aaron, 71; Absalom, 66, 67; 
Adam, 32; Agnes, 68; Alexander, 
26, 30, 58, 71; Alicia, 18; Andrew, 
58-63, 76, 83, 84, 87, 142; Ann, 88; 
Anna, 86; Anna Blanche, 86; Anne, 
18; Annie, 85; Archibald, 28, 60; 
Arvilla E., 86; Avis, 84; Barzillai, 
87; Bedent, 87; Benjamin, 85, 90; 
Carrie, 89; Catharine, 18, 58; 
Charles, 74, 75; Charles Augustus, 
89; Chariotte, 18; Charlotte Marion, 
31; David, 18-20, 68, 84, 86-89, 
141, 142; Douglas, 31 ; Edmund, 34; 
Eleanor T., 89; Eliza, 86; Ehza- 
beth, 18, 63, 65, 67, 77, 78, 80, 83, 
86, 88, 90; Emerson P., 89; Esther, 



67; Ezekiel, 87; Francis, 68, 142; 
Francois, 82; Gen. Sir David, 17, 
18; George, 15, 16, 26, 27, 31, 67- 
69; .George Alexander, 31; Gilbert, 
20, 26, 27, 29, 46; Hannah, 64, 67, 
79; Helen, 32; Henry Leslie, 89; 
Henry M., 70; Hew, 27; Howard, 
89; Hugo de, 10-12, 15, 25; Isaac, 
89, 138, 139; Isabella, 68; Jacob, 
87; James, 16, 18, 20, 26, .30, 31, 
58, 60-62, 72, 73, 75, 83, 84, 89, 91, 
140, 141; James Alexander, 30; 
Jane, 30, 62, 68, 79, 86, 88, 108; 
Jane Isabella, 31; Janet, 18; Jean, 
29, 58, 110; Jeanny, 86; John, 18, 
20, 30, 32, 57-73, 75, 79, 84, 87-90, 
136, 137, 142; John H., 89; John 
Lawrence, 30; John Quigley, 86; 
Johnne, 26, 27; Jonathan, 87, 88; 
Jordan, 15; Joseph, 18, 76, 78, 83, 

85, 86; Leonard, 35; Lillias, 20; 
Lydia, 85, 88; Margaret, 58, 67, 83; 
Martha, 58, 59, 68, 69, 83; Martha 
Jane, 86; Mary, 18, 58, 69, 76, 85- 
88; Mathow, "29; Mollie F., 86; 

MpsesJTl; Obadiah, 87; Oliver, 27; 
Patrick, 26, 27, 79, 80; Phoebe, 87, 
88; Rebecca, 62, 67, 69, 70, 71, 83, 

86, 88; Rei, 88; Richard, 11, 14, 90; 
Robert, 11, 14, 17, 18, 28, 63, 69-71, 
74, 76, 77; Robert S. Q., 86; Samuel, 
69, 75, 76, 87; Sarah, 67, 71, 86-88; 
Sarah H. 89; Sidney, 18; Simon, 35; 
Sir Anthony de, 35; Sir David, 18, 
19; Sir James, 15, 16; Sir James 
Gardiner, 16, 17; Sir John, 16, 17 
Sir Robert, 16, 17; Sir William 
15-17; Spencer FuUerton, 76; Susan 
18. 67; Tabitha, 86; Thomas, 26, 27, 
67'. 70-73, 75, 76, 78, 88, 89; 
Thomas Harlan, 67; Virginia C, 86; 
Walter, 20, 26, 27, 80; William, IS- 
IS, 20, 27, 30-32, 57-60, 62, 67, 68, 
76-78, 82-85, 89, 90, 108-110, 136; 
Willie, 89 ; Zebulon, 84-86, 89 ; 

Baird-Hav, Capt. James George, 30. 
Ball, John, 63. 



(483) 



484 



INDEX 



Bar, Lords of liOrraine. 7, 10. 

Barclay, Alexander, 27. 

Bard, i, 10, 25, 28, 30, 33, 47, 50, 61, 
77-79, 81, 92, 108, 135. 

Bards of Aosta, 6, 10; Banff, 34; Bill- 
erica, 104; Burlington, 92, 102, 106; 
Carroll's Delight, 135, 136, 142; 
Charlestown, 104; Ferrisburgii, 104; 
German origin, 115; Hammersmith 
and Caversfield, 48; Lincolnshire, 
35; Maybole, 45; New England, 104; 
North Kelsev, 25, 34, 36, 43, 45, 
48, 49, 51, 103; Staines, 48. 

Bard, Abbie E., 114; Adam, 36, 107, 
122, 130; Adrian, 38; Agnes, 38, 
110; Albert, 81; Alice, 36; Alison, 
38; Alpheus, 112; Amos, 132 An- 
drew J., 112; Ann, 37; Anne, 41, 
100; Annie M., 112; An.selmo, 2, 10, 
11; Archibald, 44-46. 57, 110, 137, 
138; Austin, 112; Avmone, 3, 9; 
Barbara. 116-118, 126, 127; Bar- 
net, 125; Barnhart, 125, 126; Ben- 
jamin, 106; Benjamin F., 112; Ben- 
nett, 94; Benoist, 94; Bernard, 44- 
46, 135; Bertram, 100; Caroline, 
100; Casper, 124; Catharine, 100, 
110, 116, 117, 121, 125, 126; Charles 
Rupert, 41 ; Charlotte, 95, 96; Chris- 
topher, 38, 40, 48: Cora Julia, 105; 
Count Federico di, 6; Cruger, 101; 
Daniel, 117, 124, 126; David, 26, 46, 
104, 109, 138, 141; David James, 
109; Deborah, 106; DofTus de, 33; 
Duncan, 1; Edmond, .36-43: Ed- 
mund, 15, 34; Edward, 37, 105; 
Elisha, 131; Eliza, 99; Ehzabeth, 
12, 34, 37, 38, 41, 100. 117, 121, 
124, 127; Elizabeth Greenwood, 
105; Emery A., 112; Emma Hannah 
106; Emma Jane, 105, Ezekiel, 131, 
132; Fergus de, 1, 11, 14, 15; Fran- 
ces, 36, 41; Francis, 38, 127; 
George 36, 38, 40-42, 103, 106, 
108, 116, 117, 121, 122. 126; 
George Ingersol, 105; George Par- 
ker, 105; George Philip, 121; Gil- 
bert, 43, 44; Guglielmo, 2; Harmon, 
112; Harriet, 96, 99; Harrison, 108; 
Helen, 38; Henrv, 38, 41, 114-110, 
122; Henry D, 113; Henry Inger- 
sol, 105; Herbert Barclay, 105; 
Horace E, 112; Hoyt, 112; Hugh, 
107, 110; Isaac, 137; Isabella, 37, 
109; Jackson E., 112; Jacob, 122; 
Jacobo, 29; Jacques, 82; James, 74, 



95, 102, 106-110; Jane, 108, 112; 
Jane Orr, 109; Jean, 82; Jennie D., 
112; Jeremiah, 132; Jesse, 131; 
Joan, 37: Joel, 106; Johan Georg, 
115; Johann George, 116; Johann 
Philip, 116; John, 1, 26, 37, 49, 78, 

80, 81, 96, 98-100, 104, 108, 110, 
113, 114, 117, 121, 124, 136; 
John Abraham, 95; John Adam, 
116; John Christopher, 116; John 
Michael, 116: John Orr, 109; John 
T., Ill; Jonct, 26; .Joseph, 41, 106; 
•Toshua, 108; Julia Howard, 105; 
Justus F., 123; Katharine, 141; 
Levi, 122; Lillias, 44; L. L., 112; 
Lorraine Reed, 105; Magdalen, 37; 
Magdalena, 96 ; Marco, 3,4,9; Mar- 
garet, 38, 40, 105, 109, 112, 117, 119, 
121, 122;Margaretta, 106; Marie, 82; 
99; Mark, 131, 132; Martha, 110, 
Martin, 123-127; Marv, 38, 40, 85, 

96, 99-101, 105, 108, 110, 118, 122, 
131, 132; Mary A., Ill ; Mary Ellen, 
105; Marv Ingersol, 105; Mary 
Martha, 93; Maximilian, 38, 40, 42, 
48; Michael, 116-119, 121, 130-132; 
Nancv, 97, 105, 107, 108; Nathan- 
iel, 40, 42; Nicholas, 1, 100; Nick- 
laus, 127, 128; OH via, 44, 45; Pat- 
rick, 80, 81; Patterson, 114; Per- 
siana, 40-42; Peter, 85, 93-90, 98, 
99, 101-103, 125; Peter Benoist, 92, 
93; Rainero, 3, 10, 14; Ralph, 13, 
36, 37; Rebecca, 40, 49, 101; Ri- 
cardo de, 29; Richard, 14, 29, 37, 
38, 44-46, 48, 49, 57, 110, 113, 
136-138; Robert, 12, 13, 27, 28, 
34, 36-38, 48, 103. 110; Robert 
Jenny, 95; Robert M., 112; Ros- 
setto", 3, 10, 14; Samuel, 40, 95, 96, 
98-100, 107, 109-114, 122, 123, 
l.-^l; Samuel F., 106; Samuel M., 
109: Sarah, 40, 96, 105, 118; Sarah 
Frances, 40; Scvilla, 125-127; Sim- 
eon Ingersol, 104; Simon, 38; Sir 
Alexander de, 29; Stephen, 126; 
Susan, 37, 100; Susanna, 97, 99, 
130-132; Susanna Catharine, 116; 
Thomas, 26, 36-38, 40, 74, 103, 106, 
108, 110, 113, 114; Tliomas Orr, 
109; Ugone di, 2, 8, 10-12, 14; 
Ugone II, 2; Ursula, 105; Warren, 
105; Wedo, 26; Willbert, 112; 
William, 13, 26, 29, 36-38, 40, 46, 

81, 85, 95, 96, 99, 100, 102, 106- 
108, 110, 112-114, 117, 137, 138; 



INDEX 



485 



William B, 112; William Henry, 
100; William Strong, 109; William 
Webster, 105; Zacharias, 116; Ze- 
bedee, 106; Zelmyra, 112. 

Barde, 1, 10, 28, 29, 33-35, 50. 

Barde, Alexander, 26; Ann, 133; Bar- 
tholomew de, 33; Bos de la, 35; Gil- 
bert, 23, 25, 43, 45; Henry de, 10, 
11 ; Isabello, 81 ; Joan, 35; .John, 23, 
24; John Louis, 133; Magistratus de, 
11; Nicholas. 35; Oliver, 23-25, 44; 
Patrick, 80, 81 ; Robert, 23, 25, 80, 
81; Samuel, 133; Seigneur de, 10, 
11, 35; Thomas, 81; Walter de, 35; 
William, 23, 50-52, 55, 56. 

Barden, 10. 

Bardin, 10. 

Barding, 10. 

Bardt, 115, 125. 

Bardt, Michael, 130. 

Bargany, Laird of, 23-25. 

Barr, Ann, 119. 

Barrington, Ellinor, 54, 55; John, 54. 

Barriod, 7. 

Bart, 115. 

Bart, Dorothea, 129, 130; Jacob, 123, 
129, 130. 

Barten, 10. 

Barth, 115. 

Barth, Frantz Ludwig, 123; Jacob, 
123; Johannes, 115; John Jacob, 
123; Martin, 123, 125; Zacharias, 
115. 

Barton, 10. 

Bartz, Jennie D., 112; U. S., 112. 

Batem, Richard, 37. 

Bazeros, 7. 

Bear, Magdalena, 121. 

Beard, 1, 10, 33, 47, 50, 61, 78, 79, 81, 
92, 108, 135. 

Beard, Aaron, 104; Agnes, 53; Alex- 
ander, 56, 78; Amos, 132; Amos H., 
132; Andrew, 63; Ann, 78; Archi- 
bald, 135-14] ; Arthur, 55; Cathar- 
ine, 56; Clora, 128; David, 129, 139- 
141; Dorcas, 55; Elizabeth, 78; 
Ellinor, 139; Esther, 104; Freder- 
ick, 128, 129; George, 78, 129; 
Henry, 132; Jacob, 128; James. 140, 
141; Jane, 78, 79, 139; Jeremiah, 
132; Jeremv, 104; John, 57, 61-63, 
76, 127, 128, 136, 139-141; Jona- 
than, 125; Joseph, 83, 104; Judith, 
56, 79; Katharine, 89-91 ; Lewis, 50; 
Magdalena, 129; Margaret, 49, 129; 
Matthew, 50; Michael, 128; Moses, 



63; Nicholas, 128; Philip, 54, 55; 

Rachel, 49; Rebecca. 62, 76, 79; 

Richard, 49, 50, 55, 56, 136; Robert, 

48, 49, 62, 63, 78, 79, 140; Rose, 53; 

Samuel, 128; Sarah, 78; Thomas, 

51-54, 104; William, .50, 51, 53-56, 

89-91, 104, 139-141. 
Reason, Richard, 37. 
Becker, Peter, 118. 
Belcher, Annie, 100. 
Bell, Francis, 78. 
Bellamont, Viscount , 38, 40-42. 
Berd, John, 57, 61. 
Berdan, 10. 
Berdon, 10. 
Berryhill, William, 69. 
Biggar, Waldevus de, 14. 
Bilyeu, Eleanor T., 88, 89; Peter, 88. 
Bingham, William S., 111. 
Bisset, Patrick, 26. 
Blantyre, Lord Charles, 19. 
Blennerhassett, Francis, 55, 136; 

Leonard, 55; Robert, 55; Sir Ed- 
mund, 55 ; Thomas, 55. 
Board, Peter, 81 ; William, 81. 
Boiardo, 1. 
Bole, Isaac, 110. 
Bowlsby, Elizabeth, 91 ; George, 91 ; 

John," 91; Richard, 91; Thomas, 91. 
Boyles, Samuel, 81. 
Bradshaw, John, 54. 
Breckenridge, James, 109; Martha, 

109. 
Brooke, John, 133; Matthew, 133. 
Brown, George, 67; Jacob Hay, 118; 

James A., 118; Martha, 85, 86; 

Susanna, 67. 
Bruce, King Robert, 28, 29. 
Buckey, Ann M., 120; Jacob, 120; 

Sarah, 120. 
Buffon, 8. 

Buonaparte, Najioleon, 5. 
Burdett, William, 55. 
Burnet, Susanna, 71. 
Butler, 50. 
Butler, Jane, 52, .55. 

Calderwood, .James, 74. 

Calvin, John, 101. 

Campbell, Archibald, 94; Charles, 94; 
Colin, 93, 94; Hugh, 67, 94; Jane, 
94; John, 94; John Gardner, 119; 
Mary, 94; Marv Ann, 94; Preston, 
18; Rebecca, 94; Sarah, 94; Will- 
iam, 93. 

C^arr, John, 129. 



486 



INDEX 



Carroll, Arthur, 63; William, 140. 

Case, Emerson J., 120. 

Cassilis, Earl of, 21, 22, 24, 29. 

Castlehaven, Lord, 53. 

Cathcart, Elias, 31. 

Cawdor, Earl, 94. 

Cerjat, Lieut. Col. H., 18. 

Chambers, Benjamin, 72. 

Champagne, John, 78. 

Charles I, 16, 39, 41, 52. 

Charles 11,41. 

Clarence, Thomas, Duke of, 35. 

Clark, 38. 

Clark, David, 67. 

Clevenstine, Henry, 132. 

Clugston, John, 69; Robert, 69. 

Clymer, Hiester, 133. 

Code, Thomas, 37. 

Cole, Viscount, 31. 

Colin, Abbot of Crosraguel, 29. 

Compton, Sarah, 87. 

Cormont, Ann, 78. 

Cornwall, Earl of, 34. 

Corrie, George, 28; John, 27, 28. 

Corrv, Marv, 56; Robert, 56. 

Cox.Abbie E., 114. 

Crawford, Margaret, 23. 

Creighton, James, 139. 

Crocket, David, 115. 

Crosby, Dorcas, 54; Patrick, 51, 52 

Richard, 54. 
Cross, Isabella, 111. 
Crowar, Jane, 81. 

Crugor, Catharine, 100; Nicholas, 100. 
Cumberland, Duke of, 42. 

Dalrymple, 29. 

Danner, Sarah, 118. 

Davis, W.H , 118. 

Dearth, Elizabeth, 71. 

Deboise, Catharine, 91. 

Delafield, Rufus K., 100. 

Desmond, Earl of, 55. 

Diamond, Elizabeth, 79. 

Dick, Christian, 127. 

Dietrick, Philip, 120. 

Dik, John, 27. 

Dillon, Arthur, 85. 

Dorey, Richard, 86. 

Doudle, Michael, 117. 

Douglas, Earl of, 15; Lord Archibald, 

14; Sir William, 13. 
Douglass, Mary, 72-75, 76. 
Dren, John, 141. 
Drummond, Sir John, 57. 
Dudley, John, 38; Susan, 38, 41. 



Duff, Mary, 93. 
Duncan, Augustus, 72, 73. 
Dunn, William, 85. 
Dupont, John, 35. 
Durbarrow, Margaret, 77. 
Dye, 87. 

Early, John, 108. 

Eberly, Peter, 72. 

Edward I, 1. 

Edward II, 28, 33-35. 

Edwards, Mary, 88. 

Ege, Michael, 118. 

Egle, William Henry, 135. 

Eichelberger, Jacob, 118; Michael, 118. 

Eisenman, Dorothea, 129; Michael, 

129; Peter, 130. 
Elizabeth, Queen of England, 50, 51. 
Ellicot, Anne, 78. 
Ely, Rebecca, 88. 
Eocha, 10. 
Erskine, John, 18. 
Ewell, Benjamin F., 120. 
Eyster, Christian, 118. 

Farewell, A., 86. 
Farmer, Robert, 13.3. 
Ferguson, Gilbert, 27. 
Findlay, John, 30; Margaret, 30. 
Fisher, John, 78. 
Fitsimmons. James, 78. 
Fitzgerald, Pierce, 53. 
Fleming, William, 14. 
Flemyng, Agneto, 26. 
Fogliato, Duke of, 5. 
Ford, William, 116. 
Francois, Jacques, 81. 
Frantz, Eva Juliana, 123, 124. 
Frazer, Colin, 94; William, 94. 
Frutas, F. G., 4. 

Gallaher, Hannah, 71. 

Gardiner, Frances, 16; James, 16. 

Gardner, Lydia, 119; Philip, 119; 

Sarah, 119. 
Gardonet, Henrietta Elizabeth, 101. 
Gardyner, Anne, 41; Sir William, 41. 
Gartschoir, Margaret, 80. 
Gaston, Lvdia, 88. 
Gave, David, 19. 
Gaveston, Pierce, 34. 
Geicght, Earl of, 27. 
Gemelyng, John de, 13. 
Genning, Israel, 90. 
George, Dorothea, 117-119. 
Gerber, Henry, 121. 



INDEX 



487 



Gerrier, Henry, 108. 

Getz, John, 120. 

Giacosa, Guiseppe, 4, 9. 

Gian Guiseppe, Fillippo Agostino di, 

6. 
Gibb, Hugh, 73. 
Gibson, Elizabeth, 16; Sir Alexander, 

16. 
Gilby, Margaret, 36, 37. 
Ginnens, Israel, 90. 
Glass, Mary, 131, 132. 
Glenn, Catharine, 110. 
Godon, George, Esq., 18. 
Gordon, .John, 27. 

Gottofriedo, Viscount of Aosta, 2. 
Grant, William, 66. 
Grav, Elizabeth, 16; Thomas, Esq., 

16. 
Grazebrook, Elizabeth, 37; Rowland, 

37. 
Grover, Mary, 98. 
Grubb, Casper, 124; Susanna, 124. 
Grymmesby, Abbot of, 33. 
Guttery, James, 56. 

Haddo, George, Lord, 18. 

Hahn, Daniel, 122; Frances, 122. 

Haldeman, Catherine, 129. 

Hall, Marv, 84, 87, 89. 

Haller, Theodore M., 120. 

Hamilton, 14. 

Hamilton, Alfred J., 108; Henderson, 

108; Hester A., 108; James, 61; 

John, 58; Margaret, 108; Martha, 

108; Robert, 108. 
Hansard, Eleanor, 36, 37; Sir Rich- 
ard, 36. 
Harcourt, Henry, Esq., 40; Richard 

Bard, 40. 
Harford, Constance Emilia, 30; John 

Battersby, 30. 
Hartpole, Ellen, 54 ; Robert, 54. 
Hartzell, Samuel, 86. 
Harvey, Charles, 103. 
Hatrick, Samuel, 79. 
Hatton, Capt. Villiers Francis, 31 ; 

Cecilia, 31. 
Hawke, Jacob, 132. 
Hay, Caroline, 118; Henry, 118; 

Jacob, 118; James, 31; John, 118; 

Isabella Agnew, 31; Lucv, 118; 

Mary E., 118; Sarah, 118; William, 

118. 
Hayward, Hannah, 104. 
Hendricks, Eli, 120; John, 120; Maria, 

120. 



Henry IV, 35. 

Henry VI, 35. 

Hill, William, 115. 

Hippie, Kate E., 133, 

Hodge, William, 67. 

Hulit, Jane, 89. 

Hunt, Jane Frances, 97; John E., 88; 

Joseph, 97. 
Huyette, Henry, 132. 

Ingersol, Mary, 104. 
Innes, Cosmo, 1. 

Jacobs, George, 120; Margaret J., 120; 
Oliver Perry, 120; Theodore, 120. 

James I, 20, 57. 

James II, 62. 

James IV, 23. 

James V, 23. 

Jamison, Robert, 79. 

John, King of England, 12. 

Jolinston, Alicia, 17, 18; Henrietta, 
17; John Taylor, 100; Margaret 
Taylor, 100; Sir William, 15; 
Wynne, 17. 

Jolinstone, David, 99; John, 99; Mar- 
garet, 99; Susanna, 99. 

Joland, 37. 

Juxon, John, 103; Thomas, 103; Wil- 
liam, 103; Willie, 103. 

Kelley, Barbara, 129; Thomas, 108. 

Kemp, Lewis G., 120. 

Kennedy, Alexander, 25, 46; Archi- 
bald, 18; Arthour, 28; Elizabeth, 
23; Gilbert, 27; Hugh, 24, 27; John, 
27, 28; Katharine, 23; Lady Anne, 
18; Margaret, 44; Sir Thomas, 24; 
Walter, 27. 

Kerr, James W., 120. 

Kieffer, Ephraim, 119. 

Kilgore, Charles, 74; David, 67; 
Esther, 74; Jane, 74. 

Kroan, Elizabeth, 117. 

Kurtz, Da\'id, 122. 

Lacy, Sir Anthony, 13. 

Lancaster, Earl of, 34; Thomas of, 35. 

Lauderdale, Earl of, 14. 

Lebkecher, David, 121. 

Lee, Margaret Le, 38. 

Leisser, George, 127. 

Lermont, Robert, 27. 

Lindsay, Christine, 23. 

Lisburn, Lord, 54. 

Littell, George, 141. 



488 



INDEX 



Livingston, William, Lord, 26. 

Locard, Symon, 32. 

Lockhart," Charlotte, 31; Malcolm, 14; 

Robert, 31. 
Loftus, Adam, 54; Anne, 54; Thomas, 

54. 
Limi, Mary, 129. 

Mac-an-Bhaird, Owen, 10. 

MacFirbis, 10. 

MacWard, 10. 

Mc Arthur, Margaret, 111. 

McBride, .James, 109. 

McCabe, Sarah, 45. 

MeCall, Elizabeth, 78. 

McCarroll, Arthur, 63. 

McClean, Catharine, 66, 67. 

McClennan, Catharine, 78. 

McCurdy, Colin K., 119. 

McDowell, James, 45; Jane, 45; John 

R., 120; Martha, 45. 
McFall, Agnes, 68; Brise, 68. 
McGee, Phelemy, 141. 
McGhea, George, 62. 
Mellvain, Caroline, 120; John, 120; 

William, 120. 
Mcllvans, Patrick, 27. 
Mclntyre, John, 129. 
McVickar, Ann, 99; Eliza, 99; John, 

99; William Augustus, 99. 
Machey, George, 62. 
Mahon, Thaddeus M. 72. 
Maitland, William de, 14. 
Mantz, Charles, 120. 
March, Earl of, 34. 
Marmion, Dinah, 93-96, 101, 102; 

Henry, 140; Sanmel, 93. 
Marmont, 5. 
Martin, Jane, 108, 109. 
Mary, Queen of Scots, 23. 
Meakin, EUzabeth, 49; Robert, 49; 

William, 49. 
Mercer, Hugh, 66. 
Metliele, Margaret de, 35; Robert de, 

35. 
Middleton, Ellen, 36; Thomas, 36, 

108. 
Miller, Jacob, 86, 123; George, 120; 

L. Ahce, 123; Lvdia, 71; Wilham 
Moffat, Jane, 30. " [R., 120. 

Monferrato, Bonafacio di, 2. 
Montbard, Counts of, 8-10. 
Moore, Ann, 99; Sir John, 17. 
Morgan, Hannah, 108; Joshua, 108; 

Mary, 107. 
Morris, Arthur B., 101. 



Morse, Lucinda Stowe, 105. 
Morton, Mari Roger de, 34. 
Mowrey, Joshua, 124. 
Muirson, George, 96. 
Murray, Alexander, 27. 
Mussenden, Ellen, 36; John, 36. 

Newbvth, Lord, 16. 

Newlands, Isabella, 80, 81. 

Nicola, Count Giacoma, 6. 

Nisbet, 28. 

Noell, Sir Martin, 53. 

Norfolk, Thomas, Earl of, 34. 

Normandie, Andre de, 101; Guil- 
laiune de, 101 ; Henrietta Eliza- 
beth, 101; Jean de, 101 ; John 
Abram de, 101; Joseph de, 101 
Laurent de, 101; Marie de, 95, 99 
Mary de, 85, 101; Michael de, 101 
Rebecca de, 101. 

O'Bairdain, 10. 

O'Hara, George, 90; James, 90; Mar- 
garet, 90. 

O'Hart, Dr. John, 10. 

O'Niel, Owen Roe, 53. 

Ogborne, Maria, 88. 

Oltimo, 2. 

Orr, Margaret, 109; Martha, 109; 
Thomas, 109. 

Osney, Richard, 37. 

Palk, Annette Maria, 30; Sir Lawr- 
ence, 30. 

Parker, Bernard, 44; Elizabeth, 93; 
Jerusha Gould, 105; Olivia, 44, 45. 

Patterson, Samuel, 119. 

Pembroke, Earl of, 34. 

Pendleton, Anne, 97; Elliott Hunt, 97; 
George Hunt, 97; James, 97; 
Mary, 97; Nathaniel, 97; Nathaniel 
Greene, 97; Susanna, 97. 

Pepperman, Joseph, 86. 

Perceval, Dorcas, 54. 

Perrin, David, 88. 

Pierce, Col., 97. 

Poe, 50. 

Poe, Catharine, 110. 

Pollock, James, 58. 

Polsagh, Olivia, 44. . 

Pope, John, 82. 

Porter, Ursula, 105. 

Potter, James, 72, 73; John, 73; 
Mary, 73. 

Potts, Rebecca, 76; Thomas, 75, 76. 

Prentice, John, 66. 



INDEX 



489 



Prime, Edmund, 100. 

Pullen, Isaac, 89 ; Mary E., 89. 

Purden, Jane, 54. 

Purdon, 10. 

Pyewell, Deborah, 76. 

Quigley, John, 86, 109; Tabitha, 86. 
Quinton, Abbot of Crosraguel, 29. 

Raine, James, Esq., IS. 
Ramage, James, 79. 
Reeves, Ehzabeth, 71. 
Reichart, Barnard, 116. 
Reside, Sarah, 78. 
Richard I, 11, 12. 
Richard II, 35. 
Richards, WiUiam, 79. 
Ricksecker, Peter, 116. 
Ricqiiart, Rebecca, 82. 
Riddle, .James, 72. 73. 
Riley, Margaret, 85. 
Ritter, Magdalena, 119. 
Riversdale, William. Baron of, IS. 
Robinnet, Samuel, 79. 
Robinson, Samuel, 44. 
Roche, William, 36. 
Ros, Gilbert, 27; Oliver, 27. 
Ross, Elizabeth, 90; John, 90. 
Rossiter, Elizabeth, 37. 
Rutherford, Jane, 107. 

Sandys, Ferdinand, 100. 

Sarriod d' Introd, 4, 9. 

Sarriod de la Tour, 4, 9. 

Sarriod, Domina Leonardo, 4; Gugli- 
elmo, 4. 

Savoy, Duke of, 5. 

Savoya, Tomasso di, 5. 

Schaw, John, 28. 

Schmeiser, Peter, 118. 

Schober, A. B., 122. 

Schreiner, Henry, 122. 

Seacrist, Isaac, 108. 

Searles, John, 132; Rebecca, 132. 

Segrave, Anne, 53; Patrick, 53; Wal- 
ter, 53. 

Sellers, Jacob, 108. 

Seymour, Horatio, 111. 

Sharpe, Rev. John, 103. 

Sheerman, Francis, 103. 

Shields, John, 73. 

Sliindle, CaroHne, 122. 

Shoemaker, Emma Hannah, 106. 

Shultz, Anna Maria, 106; John, 106; 
Sarah, 106. 

Sidney, Sir Henry, 50. 



Simson, William, 82 

Siter, Elizabeth, 129. 

Smith, Anna, 89; Sarah, 78, 

Smyser, Sarah, 119. 

Sodhan, 10. 

Somerville, Lord, 29 ; Sir Thomas, 29. 

Spangler, Alexander, 119; Anna Mary, 
119; Balser, 119; Barr, 119; Ed- 
ward, 120; Eleanor, 119; Elizabeth, 
119; Frances, 119; Hamilton G., 
119; Hans Rudolf, 120; James, 119; 
Jane, 119; John, 118-121; Juhan, 
119; Juliana, 120; Leander, 120; 
Louisa M., 119; Lucy, 120; Maria, 
120; Maria Margaret, 120; Martin, 
119; Rebecca, 120; Sarah, 119; 
Sarah Margaret, 119; Theodore, 
120; WiUiam, 119; Wilham A., 
119; William Nathan, 120; Zacha- 
riah, 119. 

Sprogel, John Henry, 130; Susanna, 
130. 

Stapleton, A., 82. 

Sterrett, S. P., 119. 

Steward, Hannah, 65; John, 65. 

Stirling, John, 81. 

Stoever, Johan Casper, 115. 

Stork, Hannah, 108. 

Stouffer, Abraham, 72. 

Strafford, Earl of, 52. 

Strange, John, 40; Margaret, 39; 
Sarah, 39. 

Strathern, Earl of, 29. 

Stuart, Sir Alexander, 29. 

Stuck, George, 122 ; Leah, 122, 
123. 

Sussex, Earl of, 51. 

Sweeting, Elizabeth, 78. 

Swope, Catharine, 121 ; Elizabeth, 
121; Henry, 121. 

Thomas, the Rhymer, 12. 

Thompson. S. F., 112. 

Tilden, Samuel J., 111. 

Tomaso I, 2. 

Tonson, Esther Charlotte, 18. 

Trowsdale, John, 36. 

Tyler, Catharine, 74, 75; John, 74. 

Tyndail, Margaret, 80. 

Unger, George, 127. 
Upp, George, 120. 

Valleau, Mary, 95; Susanna, 96, 98. 

Vandomo, Duke of, 5. 

Van Note, Dolly, 106; Dorothy, 106. 



490 



INDEX 



Verdon, 10, 

Villiers, Frederick Ernest, 31. 

Walker, Susanna, 79. 

Wallace, Samuel, 79; Sir William, 15. 

Walton, Margaret, 99. 

Ward, 10. 

Wardin, 10. 

Warren, Elizabeth, 132. 

Warwick, Earl of, 34. 

Watts, Anne, 19; John, Esq., 19. 

Wauchope, Capt. Andrew, 18. 

Webb, Mary, 118. 

Webster, Benijah, 105; Esther, 105; 

Mary Jane, 105. 
Weigle, Margaret, 128. 
Welsh, Michael, 119. 



Wheeler, Dorcas, 54; John, 50; Jonah, 
54. 

White, Andrew, 86. 

Wicklein, Jacob, 132. 

Wigton, Earl of, 14. 

William, the Conqueror, 10, 35, 36. 

William the Lion, 10-12, 15, 25. 

Wilson, James, 139; William, 73. 

Wilsoun, Johnne, 27. 

Winslev, Thomas, 58. 

Wolff, 'Adam, 118; Ann, 118; Bar- 
bara, 118; Catharine, 117, 118; 
Dorothea, 118; Elizabeth, 117; 
George H., 118; Margaret, 118; 
Peter, 117, 118; William W., 118. 

Yardley, Sibilla, 37. 



BARDS OF "CARROLL'S DELIGHT" 



Abbott, Rachel, 165, 175. 

Abell, William Irving, 272. 

Ackley, John Bolton, 222. 

Adams, Celia, 295; Martha, 268; Mary 

Jane, 289. 
Agnew, David, 209. 
Alexander, Hezekiah, 190. 
Allison, John, 189. 
Alricks, Ann, 249 ; Hermanns, 249. 
Anderson, Oliver, 221. 
Antes, Susanna, 287, 289. 
Anthony, Henrietta, 288. 
Archaimbaud, 248. 
Armstrong, Alexander C, 218; James 

M., 218; John, 155. 
Atherton, Ira, 214. 
Aughey, John, 236. 

Bagu.st, Agnes, 257. 

Baird, 144, 157. 

Baird, Alexander, 143; .\rchibald, 152; 
David, 143, 276; George, 194; 
.James, 157; Janet, 14.3; John, 194; 
Richard, 152, 153, 180; William, 
143, 154. 

Baker, John, 239. 

Baltimore, Lord, 146. 

Bard, 144, 146, 157. 

Bard, Adele Douglas, 290; Agnes Car- 
son, 225, 249; Albert Marius, 2.59; 
Alice Louise, 293; Amantha S., 271 ; 
Andrew Melville, 224, 248; Anna 
Greenwell, 256; Archibald, 157, 159, 
187, 188, 196, 200, 203, 207, 210, 
211, 221, 233, 263, 273; Archibald 



Philip, 256; Bernard, 145; Beryl 
Beatrice, 255; Catharine, 192, 193, 

199, 200, 205, 206, 209, 213, 214, 
219, 281, 286; Catharine Elizabeth, 
287, 294; Catharine Poe, 282; Cep- 
has Little, 230, 256-259; Charles, 
271; Charles D., 296; Charles Fred- 
erick, 293; Charles Harlan, 260; 
Clinton, 271; Cora E., 295; Cynthia 
A., 269; David, 157, 158, 195, 203, 
265, 267, 268, 273-282; David A., 
296; David Humphrey, 221, 242; 
Diemer, 281, 283; Douglas, 290, 
296; Ebenezer, 267-269; Elizabeth, 

200, 211, 234, 290; Elizabeth John- 
.ston, 206, 221; Elizabeth Parker, 
256; Elizabeth Susan, 269; Eliza 
Catharine, 211; Eliza Jane, 207, 
282, 291; Ellen Jane, 233, 260; 
Elliot, 225, 247; Eva Morehead, 
248; Fannie, 233; Fannie Lee, 239, 
290; Frances Elizabeth, 260; J>an- 
ces Genevieve, 293; Francis, 296; 
Georgetta, 233; Grace D., 296; 
Harri.son, 282, 289; Harry Dorsey, 
288; Henrv Clay, 270, 272; Honora 
Foley, 288, 294; Isaac, 199, 200] 

201, 206, 221, 267, 269; James, 195, 
267-269, 282; James Donald, 294; 
James Frazier, 248; James H., 271; 
James Johnston, 206; James Wil- 
liam, 225, 246; Jane, 192, 209; 
Jennie, 234; Jennie McFarland, 231 ; 
John, 200, 211, 232, 289, 295; John 
D., 282; John Edwin, 231; John 



INDEX 



491 



Livingston, 290; John Patton, 287 
293; Joseph, 269; Joseph R., 294 
Kate, 233; Katharine Virginia, 294 
Lafayette, 270; Levi, 260; Lillian, 
272; LilUe Jane, 225, 249; Lillie 
Moore, 260; Lottie Eliza, 242; Lou- 
isa Jane, 230; Lowre}% 283; Lulu 
R., 296; Luther, 270; Mabel, 296; 
Margaret, 200, 206, 220, 268; Mar- 
garet Carson, 248; Maria, 206, 218; 
Maria Jane, 287, 294; Maria Lou- 
isa, 231; Martha, 186, 200, 214, 
270; Martha A., 268; Martha Oli- 
via, 207; Mary, 200, 202, 281-283; 
Mary Agnes, 221 ; Marv Blanche, 
259; Mary E., 268, 271; Mary 
Emma, 225, 248; Mary Frances, 
287; Mary Louise, 255; Mary Mc- 
Dowell, 242; Mary Parker, 230; 
Mary Talbot, 260; Mary Wilkin- 
son," 233; Mattie Homes, 233; Mel- 
ville, 225; Mildred Gentry, 260; 
Nancy, 269; Nannie Beck, 288, 295; 
Nellie Rowana, 242; Oliver Bar- 
bour, 211; Olivia, 200, 208; Pansy 
G., 296; Phoebe Annetta, 291; 
Rachel, 281, 285; Ralph W., 296; 
Ricliard, 143, 145, 152-157, 159- 
200, 203, 205, 206, 209, 211, 223, 
225, 239, 248, 256, 263, 281, 282, 
290; Richard Alexander, 232; Rich- 
ard Irwin, 291 ; Richard James, 287; 
Richard Morgan, 293; Richard R., 
296; Robert, 255; Robert McFar- 
land, 211, 226-230, 232; Robert 
Washington, 224; Rowana Hum- 
phrey, 221; Samuel, 271; Sarah, 
281 ; Sarah Jane, 289; Sarah Rogers, 
269; Sophia McLaren, 225, 250; 
Sue Ella, 293; Susan Emma, 231; 
Susanna, 287; Thomas, 192, 193, 
199, 200, 205, 209, 210, 217; Thomas 
Carson, 224; Thomas Gerberding, 
256; Thomas Henderson, 248; 
Thomas Poe, 211, 230; Thomas 
Robert, 230, 251-255, 257, 259; 
Verona, 270; V. R., 296; Westanna, 
287; William, 155, 157, 158, 188, 
194, 195, 200, 231, 263-267, 269, 
271, 273, 282, 287; William Beatty, 
206; William Evans, 232, 259, 260; 
William Fuller, 242; William Henrv, 
269; William Irwin, 287, 294; Wil- 
liam Walter, 294; William Waters, 
268, 271 ; Zilpah Helen, 291. 
Barde, 144. 



Barnes, John, 294. 

Bartlett, W. L., 221. 

Bates, Elizabeth, 256. 

Baumeister, Charles F., 297; Max, 297. 

Beard, 144, 157. 

Beard, Archibald, 143-146, 148, 149, 

152-157, 159, 263, 273; David, 143; 

Richard, 155, 179, 180; William, 

143. 
Beatty, Elizabeth, 206; Henry, 207; 

William, 206, 207. 
Beeler, Christopher, 269; Margaret, 

269. 
Berd, 144. 

Bernard, Albina Frances, 272. 
Berry, Abel Sherman, 297; A. P., 297. 
Bevington, Florence, 245. 
Bewley, Sir Edmund, T. 144. 
Biard,"l44. 
Bierd, 144. 

Bindsly, Mary Ann, 243. 
Blair, Andrew, 290; Walter A., 290. 
Blazer, Ada, 237. 

Boggs, Alexander, 248, 249; Alex- 
ander L., 225, 248; Andrew, 249; 

Ann, 249 ; Clara Louise, 248. 
Bolen, Dollie, 296. 
Bowers, Samuel E., 244. 
Boyd, Hiram Elmer, 244. 
Boyles, Edna Percy, 298. 
Braxdale, John, 267; John Basil, 267; 

Mary Kincaid, 267. 
Brenard, Martha, 208. 
Brobst, John Valentine, 222; Mary 

E., 222. 
Brown, Cornet, 208; Elizabeth, 207; 

Enoch, 188, 191. 
Browne, Dewitt Clinton, 260. 
Buchanan, Anna, 285 ; Catharine, 286 ; 

David, 285; Eliza, 285; George, 

285, 286; James, 292; Jane, 292; 

John, 285, 29':2; John E., 280, 281, 

285, 286; Joseph, 292; Mary, 285; 

Matthew, 286; Rachel, 286; Sarah, 

285. 
Buckingham, Margaret, 237. 

Campbell, Ann, 214, 215; David Bard 
292; Eliza, 235; Esther, 291, 296 
Harrison Bard, 292; John, 291, 292 
Martha Jane, 291, 298; Mary 
Catharine, 291, 297; Stewart M., 
282, 291 . 

Canan, Henry, 285. 

Carroll, Charles, 149, 151, 152; Daniel, 
146, 148, 151. 



492 



INDEX 



Carson, David, 225; Eliza Jane, 224; 

James O., 225; Thomas, 224, 225. 
Cellar, George Carson, 221. 
Chambers, George, 226; James, 276; 

Mary, 231; Rowland, 231. 
Chestnut, Benjamin, 213. 
Clark, Frank, W. 243; James, 221; 

James D., 246; Mary, 246; Nancy, 

221. 
demons, Adeline M., 271. 
Cochran, Jean, 210. 
Codv, William, 292. 
Coleman, Archibald M., 236. 
Coulter, Rev. John, 150. 
Cowan, Hugh, 231 ; Matilda Van Lear, 

231. 
Craig, Robert Getty, 292. 
Crawford, Armstrong, 285; Edward, 

196; Thomas Hartley, 156. 
Crobarger, Leonard, 198. 
Culbertson, Alexander, 168; Ferdi- 
nand, 219; Lavinia, 219; Nancy 

P., 219; Samuel D., 219. 
Cummins, Charles, 213. 
Cunes, Alexander, 289; Catharine 

M., 289. 
Cunningham, Samuel Robert, 245. 

Darragh, Archibald Bard, 219; Frank- 
lin, 206, 219; George, 219. 

Davis, Benjamin, 288; Jane, 288; 
Joseph, 288. 

Dean, Robert, 285; William, 199. 

Deard, William, 152. 

Dickinson, Harriet, 297. 

Diemer, Elizabeth, 203, 281. 

Drake, Esther E., 291, 296; Francis 
E., 297. 

Drew, Margaret, 143. 

Dugdale, William, 231. 

Dulin, Charles M., 293. 

Dunlap, Andrew, 203; Anna, G., 240; 
Annie V., 239; Archibald Bard, 217, 
240; Clara A., 239; Elizabeth Bard, 
203, 282; Elizabeth Violetta, 216; 
Flla J., 239; Irwin C, 240; James, 
156, 200, 202, 216, 282; James 
McDowell, 239; James Potter, 216; 
Joseph Irwin, 290; Jennie M., 240; 
John, 202, 290; John Archibald, 
239; John William, 216; Joseph, 
156, 202, 203, 210; Joseph Irwin, 
216, 239; Margaret, 216; Margaret, 
Jane, 217; Martha, 290; Mary, 239, 
282; Mary E., 240; Mary Margaretta 
216; Mary Poe, 203, 217; Richard, 



203; Richard Thomas, 216; Robert 
McDowell, 216; Thomas McDowell, 
240. 

Dunwoody, Hugh, 153. 

Durrett, Reuben T., 195, 266. 

Edie, Elliot Bard, 250; Margaret, 284; 
Mary Carson, 250; William A., 225, 
350; William Woodburn, 250. 

Edwards, Roger Gaythorne, 256. 

Egle, William Henry, 145. 

Erwin, Alexander, 220; Alice, 246; 
Anna May, 244; Catharine Poe, 
208; Charles Shannon, 244; Ed- 
ward E. B., 245; Elizabeth Maria, 
244; Ellen Whalley, 243; Frank 
Howard, 245; Henry Bard, 244; 
James, 200, 208, 209"; James Bard, 
209, 222, 223, 243; Jane, 199, 200; 
Jane Emily, 244; Jane Mary, 223; 
Jane Tracy, 245; Jay Clyde, 246; 
John, 208,"209; John 'Dickson, 244; 
John Richard, 223; Joseph, 209; 
Katharine, 223; Katharine Bruce, 
244; Louise Wilson, 245; Martha 
W., 208, 222; Marv, 208, 220, 242; 
Mary Belle, 245; Minnie Bell, 244; 
Olivia, 199; Olivia Bard, 209, 222; 
Robert McElwaine, 223, 244, 245; 
Russell C, 246; Sarah Belle, 223; 
Scott Ward, 245; Thomas McEl- 
waine, 223, 245; Walter Tracy, 245; 
William Kingsley, 245. 

Escalais, 248. 

Evans, .Jeremiah, 232, 233; Marv Poe, 
232; Rachel, 232, 233; Richard, 
233. 

Eveland, Harmon, 237; Ida, 237; 
James, Turner, 237. 

Falls, Rachel, 248. 

Faulkner, George, 283. 

Faure, Elie F. G. H., 248; Gustave 

M. B., 248. 
Ferrick, Frederick, 159, 180. 
Findlay, Elizabeth, 207; James, 201, 

208; Jolm, 201, 208, 210; Samuel, 

201, 208; William, 201, 208. 
Findley, Margaret, 283. 
Finlev^ Ebenezer, 152, 263; William, 

153. 
Foley, Honora Jane, 289; William 

C, 289. 
Fowler, Arthur Norris, 295; Chester 

Patton, 295; Edward Clare, 295; 

Frances, 295; Frank, 288, 294; 



INDEX 



493 



James, 295; James Munroe, 294; 

Joseph Irvin, 295; Nora Catharine 

295; Susan E., 294; Walter Monroe, 

295; WilUam Bard, 295. 
Frazier, James, 247; Margaret, 248; 

Marv M., 247. 
Frederickson, Walter E., 298. 
Fuller, Abner M., 207. 

Garton, Mareellus, 233. 

Geisseheiner, Charles A., 243. 

Gerberding, Albert, 256; Annie Ken- 
dall, 257; Christian Otto, 255, 256, 
259; Clara Winter, 256, 259; Edwin 
Otto, 257; Frederick William, 256; 
Mary Beatrice, 255, 257; Mary J., 
255,256, 259. 

Gill, Dayid, 284. 

Gillan, Charles, 218; James, 218, 242; 
Rebecca Jane, 242; Sarah J., 218, 

Gilmer, John, 213. 

Gilson, William, 149. 

Glass, Fannie, 243. 

Glikhickan, 165, 174. 

Gourley, Jolin, 285. 

Grady, Dayid, 243; Elisha, 244; 
Elizabeth Deborah, 243. 

Graeff, Katharine, 245. 

Greer, Susan, 248. 

Gregg, Andrew, 275. 

Gregor, Helen C. Mar, 261. 

Groff, Frederick, 296. 

Grubb, Martha E., 239 

Hagerty, Nancy, 285. 

Hains, Al., 216. 

Hamilton, A. Boyd, 146; Hance, 154; 

Hans, 153; Isabella Potter, 146; 

James, 154, 204; John, 143, 153. 
Harper, John, 151 ; Robert, 189. 
Harris, John, 288; Mary, 288. 
Hecke welder, 164. 
Hempson, Mary J., 255, 256, 259. 
Henry, Margaret, 290. 
Hill, "Ahce, 237; Emma, 237; John, 

198. 
Hoch, Gideon, 193, 210. 
Hoge, Dayid, 150; Eliza, 150. 
Hollowell. Martha, 270. 
Holmes, Mary, 220. 
Houston, Annie, 241. 
Huber, Benjamin F., 218. 
Hughes, Daniel, 155; Samuel, 154, 

156, 157; Wilham T., 243. 
Humphrey, Dayid, 221; Jane, 221; 

Rowana, 221. 



Hunter, George, 237; Samuel, 161, 

169, 180, 181 
Hutchison, Rey. John, 150. 
Hyatt, Harry E., 260. 

Ingraham, Eliza A., 240. 

Iryin, Bessie, 294; Elias, 287; Ellis, 
294; Francis Carroll, 294; Hannah, 
287, 294; John, 294; Joseph Bard, 
294; Joseph R., 287, 294; William 
Ellis, 294. 

Irwin, Elizabeth, 216; George, 236. 

Isbell, Anna, 260. 

Jenkins, Alice, 245. 

Johnson, Anna Cochran, 248; Char- 
lotte, 218. 

Johnston, Charles, 237; James, 207; 
James H., 241, 242; James McDow- 
ell, 241; Maggie, 241; Mary, 206, 
241; Nancy, 241; Nannie, 241; 
Samuel H., 220, 241; S. Houston, 
193, 210; Thomas, 241. 

Jones, Mattie Davis, 271. 

Jordan, John Morton, 152. 

Junkin, D. X., 274, 279. 

Kennedy, Martha, 149. 

Kincaid, Joseph, 267; Mary, 267. 

King, Agnes, 224, 226; Charles, 293; 

George, 226; James, 256; John, 226; 

William, 256. 
Kinsey, David, 193. 
Klare, Edna, 293. 
Knapper, Abraham, 217. 
Knowlton, W. C, 236. 
Kraft, John, 296. 
Kurtz, Benjaniin, 268. 
Kyle, James, 150; John, 150. 

Larkins, Carroll, 270. 

Latimer, George, 194, 196. 

Laughhn, R. G., 236. 

Lavcock, John, 290. 

Lee, Eliza, 294. 

Leeper, Charles, 234. 

Lintner, Ellen, 237; James E., 237; 

Joseph P., 237. 
Little, Casper, 230; Elizabeth Smith, 
230; Mary S. P., 230; Peter W., 230, 

231 ; Susanna, 230. 
Livingston, Hugh, 290; Phoebe, 239, 

290. 
Livingstone, Daniel, 287; Edward, 

287. 
Lochery, Jeremiah, 146; William, 151. 



494 



INDEX 



Lowe, Sarah, 237. 

Lowrey, Fanny, 283; James, 283; 

Joseph, 283; Lazarus, 283. 
Lytle, Wilham, 196. 

McBride, James, 197; Hannali, 159, 
174, 180. 

McBurnie, John, 235. 

McClain, James, 276. 

McClean, Archibald, 153. 

McClellan, James, 209; Mary, 209. 

McCord, William, 167. 

McCormick, William, 284. 

McCracken, John, 150. 

McCrae, James Turner, 236; Marga- 
ret, 236. 

McCullough, James, 212; John, 212. 

McDowell, AJexander, 213; Alexander 
E., 206, 220; Annabella, 241 ; Archi- 
bald Bard, 220, 240, 241 ; Catharine 
Poe, 218; Elizabeth, 220, 241; 
James, 201-203, 210, 217, 220; 
James Dunlap, 217; James E., 218; 
James M., 218; Jane, 201, 216, 217, 
220; Jane Smith, 218; John, 213, 
282 ; Margaret, 226 ; Mary, 220 ; Mary 
Bard, 217; Mary Jane, 220, 240, 
241; Rebecca Jane, 242; Robert, 
216-218; Robert Holmes, 218; 
Robert Smith, 241; Sarah Eliza- 
beth, 242; Sarah Margaret, 218; 
William, 201, 210, 220; William 
Erwin, 242; Wilham Plndlav, 218; 
William M., 218; William Smith, 
220, 242. 

McElwaine, Andrew, 222, 223; Isabel 
McKee, 222; Robert, 222, 223. 

McFarland, Catharine, 199; Isaac 
Bard, 213; Jane, 214; Jane C, 210, 
213, 215; Jeannev, 210; John, 214; 
Joseph, 208; Mary, 215; Robert, 
210, 213, 215; Stephen, 200, 213, 
216; Thomas, 214. 

McGahan, James Erwin, 222; Katha- 
rine, 222; Olivia J. M., 222; Valen- 
tine B., 209, 222. 

McGee, John, 174. 

McGinley, Amos, 151 ; James, 146. 

McGrew, Alice, 236; Amanda, 237; 
Mazie, 260. 

Mcintosh, Lucia, 232. 

MeJimsey, Robert, 150. 

McKean, Thomas, 189. 

McKeefey, Neil J., 245. 

McKinnie, Adam, 206, 218; Alexander, 
240; Anne, 213; Ann Jane, 235; 



Bard, 219; Catharine, 211, 213, 
235; David Elliott, 235; Elizabeth, 
212, 234; Ehzabeth Bard, 235; 
Harriet, 235; Isabel, 211-213, 
218; Isabella, 234; Jame.s, 200, 
211, 234; John, 211, 212, 234, 
235; .losiah, 211, 212, 218, 235; 
Margaret, 211, 213, 234, 236; Mar- 
garette, 241; Martha, 213; Martha 
Belle, 235, 261; Mary, 212; Rachel, 
234; Richard Bard, 211, 234, 235; 
Robert, 240, 241; Samuel, 235; 
Sarah, 234 ; Susanna, 234 ; Thornton, 
235; Walter, 211, 212; William A., 
220, 240. 

McKnight, Rev. John, 153, 263; Levi 
A., 223. 

McLanahan, James X., 228. 

McLene, James, 276. 

McManimy, Daniel, 161, 174, 180. 

McMath, .John, 199. 

McMean, Rachel, 182, 214. 

McMullen, Alexander, 211, 235; Eliza- 
beth, 236; Henry, 286; James, 235; 
Jane, 236; John,"233, 235 ; Margaret, 
236; Mary, 235; Mary Poe, 236; 
Rachel, 233; Thomas, 236. 

McPherson, Col. Robert, 152, 263. 

Mackey, Mary Goodman, 261. 

Maclay, William, 204. 

Marks, Esther, 291. 

Marshall, James, 152; Joseph, 213 

Martin, Henrietta, 222. 

Matthews, George, 196. 

Menard, William, 213. 

Mertz, Anna, 260. 

Mitchell, James, 284. 

Moffat, Susan, 150. 

Moor, Samuel, 153. 

Moore, Eliza Ward, 297; Frederick 
H., 298; John, 234; John P., 291, 
297; Mabel Pope, 297; Matilda M., 
270; Marv, 298; Sarah, 234; Susan, 
286. ^ 

Morgan, Louise K., 293; Sara, 293; 
William, 293. 

Morehead, Ellen, 248; Hugh H., 
248. 

Morey, Arthur Paine, 233, 260; Jennie 
Jasper, 261 ; Laura Calma, 261 ; 
Richard, 261 ; Walter, 261. 

Morris, Cephas, 234. 

Morrison, John W., 246. 

Morrow, James, 284; Margaret 285; 
Nancv, 285; Rebecca, 285; Robert, 
284; Sarah, 285. 



INDEX 



495 



Murphy, Francis, 291, 296. 
Mutchmore, Sarah, 149. 

Neemes, Jennie Calhoun, 245. 
Norris, Anna Catharine, 295; Moses 

Arthur, 288, 295; Susan Mary, 

295. 

Oedl, Antione, 297. 
Oliver, Jean, 225. 
Osborne, Susan, 248. 

Palmer, William F., 239. 

Pancoast, Henry H., 248; Seth, 248. 

Parker, Mary S., 230. 

Patterson, Zaccheus, 150. 

Patton, John, 287-289; Rachel, 288; 
Samuel, 212, 288; Susan, 287; Wil- 
liam, 288. 

Penn, John, 274. 

Pipe, Captain, 184. 

Poe, Catharine, 200, 214; Elizabeth, 
195; James, 195, 199; Mary, 200, 
233, 235; Susanna, 194; Thomas, 
200. 

Porter, Boyd, 272; Margaret, 236, 
238. 

Potter, Catharine, 194; James, 194; 
John, 146, 157, 180, 194, 200; Mar- 
garet, 194; Martha, 157; Mary, 200; 
Samuel, 194, 196; Thomas, 159, 
162, 180, 181, 188. 

Prichard, John, 244. 

Pringle, Jason, 217. 

Purviance, Nancy, 219. 

Ramsey, James, 209; Marv, 209; 
William T., 237. 

Rankin, Birdie, 243; Fannie Glass, 
243; George, 243; James Erwin, 
222, 243; John £rwin, 243; Lewis, 
243; Nancv, 241, 242; Sarah Erwin, 
243; William, 208, 222, 243. 

Rea, John, 204. 

Read, Philip, 269. 

Reed, John, 204; Margaret, 218, 242; 
Nancy, 221. 

Rex, Margaret, 248. 

Reyburn, J. C, 237. 

Rhodes, Mary Jane, 240 ; Naomi, 
249. 

Richardson, William, 149. 

Rivenberg, Grace, 257. 

Robertson, Arabella, 233. 

Rodgers, Rev. Dr., 153. 

Rogers, Antoinette, 272; Charles 



Bard, 271; David James, 271 
Edgar B., 272; Edwin Cosby, 272 
Harrison, 271; James, 271, 272 
John Henry, 272; Jonathan, 268 
271, 272; Sarah Ellen, 272; Thomp- 
son, 272; William Richard, 272. 

Ross, John, 288. 

Rush, William, 149. 

Russell, Elizabeth, 285; Jane, 285; 
Margaret, 285; Samuel, 284, 285. 

Sample, Robert F., 279. 

Sansbury, William T., 272. 

Scott, Carrie, 261 ; Jane, 234; Thomas, 
275; Thomas A., 251. 

Sears, Elizabeth, 256. 

Senseny, Abraham H., 257. 

Sellers," Fannie, 218. 

Shannon, Jane, 223. 

Shelton, Samuel, 266. 

Sherer, Anna H., 256. 

Shields, Curtis E., 261; Daniel H., 
235, 261 ; Nellie Bard, 261. 

Shultz, Ella, 290; John A., 290; Pearl 
E., 290. 

Simonton, William, 283. 

Skeen, Eunice E., 218. 

Sleigle, Lvdia, 235. 

Smith, Charles, 204; Elizabeth, 290; 
James, 202; Jane, 201, 202; John 
L., 244 ; Neil J. 296 ; Robert, 202. 

Snyder, Ella, B. 238. 

Spence, Colin, 234. 

St Clair, Sir John, 178. 

Steele, Hannah Bard, 251; Hugh 
Exton, 251 ; John Dutton, 225, 250. 

Stevenson, George, 179. 

Stewart, Ann, 284, 285; David, 284 
David Bard, 284; Eliza, 284 
James, 284, 285; Margaret, 284 
Margaret Edie, 284; Mary, 284 
Nancv, 284; Rachel Ann, 284; Rob- 
ert, 284, 285; Sarah, 284; Thomas, 
281, 284. 

Stitzel, George, 193, 210; Henry, 
193, 209, 210; Wilham, 193. 

Stow, Sherman P., 257. 

Stuchfield, Bessie Bard, 249; Cora 
Lotta, 249; Ellen Davis, 249; 
Frank Bard, 249; Frank H., 225, 
249; William Davis, 249. 

Sturge.s, Phineas M., 223. 

Swayze, Jason C, 223. 

Talbot, Sarah Elizabeth, 260. 
Templeton, James, 285. 



496 



INDEX 



Thompson, Josiali, 216; Nannie J., 

262. 
Thomson, Alexander, 204. 
Thorn, Mary H. A., 244. 
Tod, John, 204. 
Toms, John, 154. 
Torrence, Albert, 166. 
Tracy, Ann Ecca, 244 ; Bruce, 

244. 
Trotter, Alexander, 217. 
Turner, Adam, 238; Catharine, 237; 

Catharine A., 236; Clara, 262; 

Eleanor, 237; Elizabeth Bard, 236; 

Emily Jane, 236; Ida May, 262; 

Iola,"262; James, 211, 236;" James 

McKinnie, 237, 261 ; Joseph, 236, 

238; Joseph Gardner, 236; Lydia 

Jane, 237; Margaret Porter, 237; 

Margaretta L., 262; Mary, 236; 

Nathaniel Porter, 237; Richard 

Bard, 237; Violette Louisa, 237; 

William, 237 ; William Lintner, 

262. 
Tussev, David P., 285 ; John M., 

285. 

Van Antwerp, Charles, 260. 
Van Lear, Joseph, 231; Mary, 231. 
Vaughan, Theodore B., 237. 
Venning, Jesse T., 245. 

Waddell, Alexander, 208; Eliza, 240, 
241, Thomas, 208. 



Wakefield, John E., 237. 

Warmcastle, Kate, 243. 

Waters, Elizabeth, 268; William, 268 

Waugh, David, 150; James, 149 
Jane, 149, 150; John, 149, 150 
Nancy, 149; Samuel, 149, 150 
William, 148-150. 

Wayne, Anthony, 184. 

Wenzel, Alice, 244. 

West, Mary, 260. 

Westfall, Ezra Billing, 243; Mary 
Ada, 243. 

White, John Wesley, 245; J. W. F., 
244; WiUiam, 161, 180; William H., 
244. 

White Eves, 183, 184. 

Widder, John, 193, 210. 

Wilson, Catharine, 186; Catharine 
Poe, 214; Isabelle, 214, 215; James 
284; John, 214, 215, 281, 286 
Martha, 199; Martha Bard, 214 
Rachel McGee, 214; Thomas, 286 
William, 200, 210, 214, 215. 

Winger, Andrew, 193. 

Wise, Cora, 298; Esther, 298; Henry 
A., 298; Thomas, 291, 298; Vivian 
Stewart, 298. 

Witherow, John, 146; Samuel, 195; 
William, 151. 

Woodmancey, 234. 

Woods, Henry, 275. 

Young, William S., 233. 



THE BARD KINSHIP 



Acheson, Eleanor McCiillough, 466. 

Alexander, James W., 393; I.sabella, 
434; James, 319; John B., 441; 
Margaret, Mary, 434. 

Alison, Francis, 399. 

Allen, Jane, 389; Jane Logan, John, 
442; Jothara, 329; Stephen, 351; 
Thankful, William Henry, 329. 

Allison, Isaac, 393; John, 375. 

Amruadh, 394. 

Andrews, Chase, 392. 

Anderson, Elizabeth,411 ; William, 411. 

Annan, Andrew, 406; Margaret Coch- 
ran, 403, 405; Robert, 403, 405, 
406; Robert L., 404; Robert Lan- 
dales, William, 406. 

Archibald, William, William V., 336. 

Armstrong, Jenny, 397; John, 305, 
309, 312, 315, 372. 



Arnold Family, 364. 
Ashbaugh, Margaret, 473. 
Audley, Lord, 354, 355. 

Baird, Esther, William, 476. 

Baker, Daniel, 308. 

Balfour, Charles, 354; Sir William, 
355. 

Balusky, Count, 477. 

Banker, Andrew, Jacob, Maria, Mary 
Catherine, Sarah, 474. 

Bard, Archibald, 376; Catherine Poe, 
374; David, Diemer, Elizabeth 
Diemer, 362 ; Elizabeth Smith 
Little, 479; Isaac, 452, 461; Jane 
C. McFarland, 387; Jane McDowell, 
461; John, 387; Martha, 424; Mary 
Poe Evans, 387, Richard, 301, 302, 
374, 384, 385, 387, 393, 419, 420, 



INDEX 



497 



424, 479; Robert M., 428, 479; 
Thomas, 384, 387, 420, 468. 

Barde, William, 355. 

Barnes, John, 422. 

Barnhart, Harr}' R., Henr.y, James 
B., John G., Julia, Margery, Sarah 
C, 330. 

Beard, Archibald, 300, 302, 311; 
James, James Porter, 310; Martha, 
302, 309; Mary, 310; Thomas, Wil- 
liam, 355. 

Beatty, Agnes Smith, 459, 464; Ann 
Sniith, Catherine, 464, 465; Eliza- 
beth, 465; Harriet, 464; Henry, 
464, 465; James, John, Margaret, 
465; Martha, Ruth, 464; Samuel 
Smith, 464; Walter, 459, 464, 465; 
William, 465. 

Bell, Anna Perry, 462. 

Belmore, Earl of, 299. 

Bender, Martha, 481. 

Bennett, Mrs., 465. 

Bertman, Wesley, 473. 

Besore, Alice, Daisy, Ennna, George, 
Kate, Landis A., Mary, 380. 

Beverly, Harry, 365. 

Bewley, Sir Edmund T., 349, 360, 
369, 370. 

Biddle, John, Margaret Falconer, 445. 

Bingham, Agnes Junkin, 410, 417; 
Amanda, Emma, 417; Hugh, 410, 
417; John Armor, Lucinda Stuart, 
Marian, Marie Scott, Martha, 
Thomas, William, 417. 

Bixby, Grace, R. F. P., 365. 

Black, Ann, James, 457; Jeremiah S., 
429; John, 411. 

Blair, Samuel, 396. 

Blennerliasset, Thomas, 356. 

Bodlev, Eliza, Elizabeth, James, John, 
Thomas, William, 434. 

Boggs, Andrew, 463; Moses, 329. 

Boone, Ann, Daniel, 324. 

Boude, J. Evans, 436; Thomas, 316. 

Bouquet, Col., 454. 

Bowman, William, 433. 

Boyd, Baptist. 300; Samuel, 442. 

Brabazon, Sir Anthony, Sarah, 311. 

Braddock, Gen., 457, 471, 476. 

Bradish, Eliza, 445. 

Brasher, Camille, 442. 

Breen, William, 300. 

Bridges, C. N., 437. 

Briggs, Susie, 430. 

Brooke, Andrew Parker, Caroline A., 
Charles Wallace, Charlotte M., 



Eliza Parker, Elizabeth Mary, 
Pierce Butler, Robert, Robert M., 
Stephen H., William P., 437. 

Brown, Alexander, 319; Anne Potter, 
315; Clementina B., 325; Cornet, 
462; Elizabeth, 460, 462; Enoch, 
312; George, 303; Martha, 306; 
Mary, 318, 319, 322, 324, 325; 
Rebecca, 381; Robert, 315; Samuel 
Potter, 315, 316; Thomas, 306, 310, 
381; William, 316, 318, 319, 403. 

Brownson, Abigail, 467; Alexander 
Acheson, 466; Asa, Elizabeth, 467; 
Ellen Maclay, Elliott C, James I., 
James Irwin, 466; John, 460, 466, 
467; John Maclay, Loretta Morgan, 
Marcus A., Margaret, Margaret 
McK., 466; Mary EHzabeth, 467; 
Mary McDowell, 461, 466, 467; 
Mary R ., Mary W., 466 ; Nancy, 461 , 
466, 467; Nathan, Nathan Asa, 467; 
Richard, 461, 466, 467; Robert M., 
466; Robert Smith, Sarah Jane, 
467; Sarah Smith, 460, 466; Tim- 
othy, 467. 

Bruce, A., Fannie E., Robert, 390. 

Bryan, David, 433; Richard R., 332. 

Buchanan, George, 410, 416; James, 
382, 383, 391; John Junkin, Joseph, 
416; Mary Junkin, 410. 

Bullions, Alexander, 390 

Burnside, Amelia, 325, 339; Thomas, 
William, 325. 

Byron, Sir John, 349, 353. 

Cairnes, Elizabeth, 363. 

Campbell, Charles, 381 ; Charles 
Thomas, 380, 388-390; Eleanor, 
324; Elizabeth Charlotte, 380, 390; 
Fannie E. Bruce, 390; Hugh, 473; 
James, 377, 380, 381, 388, 390; 
James E., 393; John, 381; Jo.seph, 
385; George, 381; Margaret Poe, 
380, 388, 390; Michael, 381 ; Phanuel 
Rannels, 380, 381; Rebecca, 385; 
Sarah, 381; Thomas, 381, 452; Wil- 
liam, 381. 

Carman, Susan, 424. 

Carnahan, Catherine Potter, James, 
316. 

Carothers, Andrew, 340; Catherine, 
317; Catherine Potter, 310, 316, 321 ; 
Caroline Taylor, 321 ; Eleanor Find- 
ley, 411; Eliza, 321, 333, 345, 346; 
Elizabeth, Elizabeth McClure, Isa- 
bella Power, 317; James, 310, 316, 



FF 



498 



INDEX 



321; James, (II), James P., 317; 
Jane, 317, 321; John, 317; John 
Richey, 321; Martha, 317, 321; 
Mary, 317; Rutli Elliott, 321, 333; 
Samuel, 317, 321, 333; William E., 
321; William Swan, 317. 

Carpenter, Marv Elliott, Robert P., 
326. 

Carroll, Barrister, Daniel, 403. 

Cathcart, Elizabeth, 314, 315; Mar- 
garet, 310; William, 315. 

Chambers, Artluir, 390; Arthur Camp- 
bell, 380, 390; Benjamin, 303, 307, 
310, 311, 456; Catherine, 311, 315; 
Charlotte, 311; Eleanor C. Stock- 
ton, 390, 391; Elizabeth Charlotte 
Campbell, 380, 390; George, 340; 
James, 307, 311, 390; John, 390; 
Joseph, 315; Mary Patterson, 314, 
315; Robert, Rowland, 390; Ruh- 
amah, Sarah Bella, Sarah Patter- 
son, 311; Thomas, 314, 315; Wil- 
liam, 375, 409. 

Charlton, Rebecca, 480. 

Christie, Robert, 363. 

Clanawley, I^ady Susanna, 355. 

Clark, Dr., 329; James, 405. 

Clay, Henry, 341. 

Clemm, Maria Poe, Virginia, William, 
363. 

Clendenin, Clara E., John, 426. 

Clingan, William, 396. 

Clinton, James, Gen., 436, 439. 

Coburn, Dr., Margaret Crouch Potter, 

aig. 

Cochran, Andrew, 403; Ann, 396; Ann 
Rowan, 396, 399, 400; Anna May, 
412; Annabelle, 413; Anne, 398; 
Clifford Wilson, 413; David, 395- 
398; David Franklin, Edgar Fitz- 
gerald, Edward Everett, 413; Elea- 
nor, 405, 409, 414-416; Eliza Wil- 
son, 413; EHzabeth, 368, 398, 408; 
Elizabeth C, Fannie 412; Findley, 
408; George, 397, 409; George Wil- 
son, 413; Gertrude Schuyler, 399, 
401; Grace, 413; Hannah Hill, 414; 
Hannah J. Wilson, 412, ; Isabel 398; 
Isabella, 396; James, 394-400, 403, 

406, 407; James Beatty, James 
Brown, 414; James Marion, 413; 
James Seward, 412; James W., 407, 
412; Jane, 397, 398, 400, 401, 404, 

407, 412, 419; Jane Wilson, 412; 
Jean, 400, 405, 419, 421, 423, 424; 
Jenny, 397, 398; Jerre Morrow, 413; 



John, 394, 396, 399, 401, 403-405, 
407-410; John Lewis, 413; John 
Morrow, 412, 413; John Webster, 
412; Joseph Wilson, 413; Jonathan, 
408; Laurence, 412; Llewelljoi, 
Louisa Deshler, 413; Margaret, 398, 

403, 405, 407 ; Maria Mary, Martha 
Jane, 413; Marv, 405, 406," 408, 410, 
412; Mary J. Hill, 412; Melinda, 404, 
406; Morrow, 414; Nannie, Paul 
Garfield, 413; Rebecca, 398, 401, 
412; Rebecca J., 413; Rebecca Jane, 
414; Rebecca Morrow, 407, 408, 
412, 413; Robert, 394-398, 403, 

404, 407; Robert Hill, 412; Ruth, 
407; Samuel, 397, 400, 401, 404, 
407; Samuel Dick, 413; Sarah, 403- 
405; Stephen, 395-398, 400, 419; 
Tavlor, 412; Walter Livingston, 
400, 401; William, 395, 403-405, 
407-409, 412, 413; William Annan, 
413; William R., 407, 413; William 
Woods, 413. 

Cochrane, John, 401, 402; John, of 
Bishopton, 402. 

Cole, Cornelivis, 412. 

Cooper, Lieut., 439. 

Corbin, John, 407. 

Comwallis, Lord, 313. 

Corrv, James, 299. 

Couch, Gen., 402. 

Covenhoven, Robert, 347. 

Cowan, Marv, 361. 

Coyle, A. L., 467; Maria H., 391; 
Mary, 467. 

Craig, "Capt., 439; Isabella, 328; Jos- 
eph, 433 ; Sarah, 327. 

Crane, Marv Ellen Potter, Simeon H., 
323. 

Crawford, George, 378, 384; George 
Douglass, John S., Mary Johnston, 
468; Nannie, 366; Robert Smith, 
William, William H., 468. 

Crist, Joshua P., 477. 

Crosbie, Patrick, Sir Pierce, 355. 

Crouch, Edward, Hannah Brown, 
James, Margaret Potter, 314. 

Crozier, Catherine, 299, 300, 309; 
John, 299, 309. 

Culbertson, Capt., 380; James, 456; 
Samuel, 422, 460, 464, 467. 

Gumming, Annie, Charles, Joseph, 
365; Maria Poe, 363; Mary Cuth- 
bert, Montgomery, Thomas, Wal- 
lace, William Henry, 365. 

Cunningham, James, 398. 



INDEX 



499 



Currv, Robert, 433. 

Curtin, Andrew Gregg, 326, 329, 330, 
340-343, Austin, 329, 330; Cather- 
ine Wilson, 326, 343; Constans, 320, 
329, 331 ; Ellen Honora, James, 329; 
Jean Gregg, 320, 328, 340, 343; 
Jennie, 343; John, John I., John 
IrAnn, 330; Julia, Margery, 329; 
Martha Gregg, 320; Martha M., 329, 
343; Marv J., 329; Mary W., 343; 
Roland, 320, 328, 329, 340, 343; 
William, 330; William Wilson, 343. 

Cuthbert, John, 408. 

Dargent, H., 462. 

Davis, Mary S. Porter, 446. 

Dawson, H. N. R., 448; Katherine, 

364. 
Dean, Alexander Tracy, 464, 467; 

Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Robert Smith 

468. 
Deemer, Catherine, 362. 
Dickinson, John, 314. 
Dickson, Ellen, Hugh, 326; John J., 

William M., 442. 
Dougal, James, 326. 
Douglass, Archibald, Rebecca, Sarah 

Agnew, 42.5. 
Doyle, A. Elizabeth, Alice, Andrew 

G., Celia, Dick, E. Ormond, George, 

Jessie, 328. 
Droup, George, 473. 
Duffield, William, 374. 
Duncan, Adelia, Margaret, O. P., 

Susan Irvin, Susan Potter, Thomas, 

322. 
Dunlop, Andrew, 311; .Tame.s, 378, 

384, 409; Sarah Bella, 311. 
Dunwoody, Hugh, 408. 

Echlin, Elizabeth, 311. 

Edge, William, 433. 

Edwards, Albert S., Charles, Eliza- 
beth E., Georgia, Julian Cook, 
Ninian Wirt, 447. 

Egle, William H., 320. 

Eile, 394. 

Elizabeth, Queen, 355. 

Elliott, Bessie, 327 ; Christiana, Eliza- 
beth Wilson, George, 326; James 
W., John, 327; John, Rev., 326; 
Katie, 327; Laura Wilson, Mary A., 
326; Ruth, 321, 333; William" W., 
327. 

Emmet, Samuel, 403. 

Erwin, James, Mary, Olivia Bard, 384. 



Evans, Jeremiah, 378, 387; John Mc- 
Mullen, Mary Eliza, Mary Poe, 387; 
Rachel McMuUen, 378, 387. 

Fahnestock, Peter, 377. 

Fallon, Margaret Beatty, 465. 

Farnham, Lord, 361. 

Fenton, James, 377, 385. 

Fey, John, 441. 

Findlay, Amelia Frazer, Ann Rebecca, 
462; Anna Mary, 470; .\rchibald 
Irwin, 461, Alexander, Charles, 
462; Eleanor Johnston, 461; Eliza- 
beth, 470; Elizabeth Brown, 460, 
462; Elizabeth King, 461 ; Elizabeth 
Margaretta, 462; Elizabeth Rice, 
Emma Lash, Grace Rice, 470; 
Henry, 462; James, 461, 462; James 
Lash, 470; Jane, 461 ; Jane Smith, 
460; John, 452, 461, 464, 469; John 
King, 461; John Torrence, 470; 
John William, Jonathan Smith, 
Margaret, 462; Mary, 461; Mary 
.Jane, 462; Nancy Brownson, 469; 
Nathan, 461, 462; Rebecca, 461; 
Robert, Robert S., 462; Robert 
Smith, 461, 469, 470; Samuel, 458, 
460-462; Samuel B., 461; Sylvester 
Lamed, Thomas, 462; William, 461, 
462; William Perry, 470; William 
Reynolds, 462. 

Findley, Alexander, Arcliibald, 362; 
David, Eleanor, Elizabeth, 411; 
Elizabeth Junkin, 410, 411; John, 
410, 411 ; John Junkin, 41 1 ; Martha, 
362, 409, 411; Mary, 411; Mary 
Cochran, 405, 409, 410; Nancy, Pat- 
terson, 411 ; William, 405, 409, 410, 
411. 

Finley, Ebenezer, 462; John, 431. 

Fishburn, James F., 415. 

Fitzgerald, Marie, 413. 

Fleming, Robert, 397. 

Flora, Susan, 384. 

Forman, Andrew, 476. 

Forsyth, John, Mrs., 365. 

Franciscus, Margaret, 475. 

Frederick, Samuel, 373, 379. 

Fremont, John C, 402. 

French, Susan, 348. 

Frost, Alice, 350. 

Fullerton, David, 376; Humphrey, 
304, 307. 

Galloway, Agnes Junkin, James, 410, 
416; John Mason, 417. 



500 



INDEX 



Gates, Gen., 439. 

Gelwicks, Frederick, Ida, 388. 

George, Jeremiah, Matthias, 388. 

Gerlach, Henry, 473. 

Gibbes, Anna M., 482. 

Gibson, John B., 444; William, 471. 

Giesy, Ann, Harry, Marv E., Samuel 

U., 469. 
Glenawlev, Hugh, Lord, 35.5. 
Goddard," William, 363. 
Goodwin, Anne Mansfield, Robert, 

359. 
Gordon, Alexander, 386; Samuel, 

377, 385. 
Grant, U. S., 342, 449, 450. 
Greeley, Horace, 402. 
Green," G. Dorsey, 332. 
Greenawley, Hugh, Lortl, .354. 
Gregg, Alice M., 332; Andrew, 314, 

319, 320, 327-332, 343, .344, 376; 
Ann E., 331 ; David McMurtrie, 332, 
344; David McMurtrie (II), 345; 
Eliza, Eliza Wilson, 320; Elizabeth, 
321; Ellen, Ellen McKnight, .332; 
Ellen McMurtrie, 332, 344; Ellen 
Sheaff, 345; George, 332, 345; Henrv 
H., 332; James, 321 ; .lames P., 331 ; 
James Potter, 320; Jean, 320, 321, 
328, 340, 343; Jean Scott, 321, John, 
321, 329; John Ir^^n, 331, 344; Julia, 
331; Juliana, 320, 330; Margaret, 
321, 331; Margaret Irvin, 331, 344; 
Margery, 320, 329; Martha, 320, 
331 , 332 ; Martha McM., 332 ; Martha 
Potter, 318, 319, 327, 328, 330-332; 
Matthew, 321; Matthew Duncan, 

320, 332, 344; Mary, 320, 327, 332, 
340; Mary Jane, 331; Rachel, 321; 
Sarah, 320; Susan, 331 ; Thomas J., 
332. 

Grier, Isaac, 446; Margaret, 474; 

Mary, 480. 
Grove," David, 386. 
Grubb, Jane McClelland, Joseph, 

Ruth, 392. 

Hall, A. Oakey, 402; Lodiska, 480. 

Hamilton, Adam Bo.vd, 300; Cather- 
ine, Elizabeth, Francis, Hans, 31 1 ; 
Hugh, 355; Isabella, 300, 302, 303, 
432, James, 310, 311; Sir James, 
311; John, 300, 303, 307, 310, 311; 
John of the Bawn, 31 1 ; Katherine, 
307; Malcoln, 355; Margaret, 311; 
Robert, 303; Sarah, 311. 

Hanna, John, 408. 



Harbison, Adam, 379; Isabella, 379, 
388; Martha, 379. 

Harris, Eleanor, 382; George F., 343; 
James, 338; James R., 382; Thama- 
.sine, 338, 347, 348. 

Harrison, William Henry, 380, 462. 

Hause, Cassandra, Victor, 473. 

Hays, Jane Love, John, Sarah, 327. 

Heagen, Amanda, Anne F., Catherine, 
Esther Alvina, Henry, John W., 
Mary, Nelson, Susanna, 473. 

Heberton, A., 437. 

Helm, Ben Hardin, 448. 

Hendricks, J. G., Maria L. Potter, 322. 

Herr, W. W., 448. 

nibble, Lvdia, 482. 

Hide, Ann, 359, 369. 

Hiester, Eugenia, Henry Melchoir 
Muhlenberg, John Sylvester, Joseph 
Muhlenberg, Maria Catherine Muh- 
lenberg, 328. 

Hill, Alexander J., 334; Hannah, 414; 
Martha Potter, 315; Mary J., 412; 
William, 315. 

Hodge, Rebecca, 408. 

Hoke, Jacob, Marj', 474. 

Holliday, Samuel, 464. 

Holmes, Sheriff, 456. 

Hood, Thomas, 324. 

Hopkins, C. D., Elizabeth Arnold, 364. 

Houston, Mrs., 365; William, 330. 

Howe, Gen., 313. 

Hoy, Nancy, 368. 

Humphreys, Alexander, Elizabeth, 
448. 

Hunter, Charles, 321 ; Eliza Carothers, 
321,333; Gen., 445. 

Huston, Charles, 324, 325. 

Hutchinson, Daniel, 3.56. 

Imlav, Julia, William, 415. 

Irvin, Ann Watson, 324, 330, 331, 
338, 343; Eliza, 330; James, 320, 
329-331, 343; John, 322, 324, 330, 
331, 338, 343; John and Ann Wat- 
son, children of, 330; Juliana Gregg, 
320, 330; Margaret, 331, 344; Ro- 
land Curtin, 343; Sarah, 338; Wil- 
liam, 329, 331, 343, 376. 

Irvine, Catherine, 327; Gen., 436; 
William, 327; William D., 442. 

Irwin, Adelia Duncan, 322; Archi- 
bald, 461, 463; David, 322; Eliza- 
beth, 463, 467-469; James, 460; 
Jane, 462; Jane McDowell, 461, 463; 
Nancy, 461 ; William, 456. 



INDEX 



501 



Jack, Elizabeth, James, Jolin, Marv, 
336. 

Jackson, Thomas J. (Stonewall), 415. 

James, King, 451; William H., 413. 

Jennings, Margaret Waddell, 386. 

Johnson, Andrew, 342, 449. 

Johnston, Annabelle McDowell, 468; 
Elizabeth, 463; Elizabeth Brown, 
462; George W., 463; James, 462, 
463; Jane, 463; John, 452, 458, 462, 
463, 468: Mary S., 463; Mary Smith, 
468; Rebecca," 463; Rebecca Smith, 
462; Robert, 314, 462; Samuel, 463; 
Thomas, 462, 463; William, 463. 

Jones, Mary, 353. 

Jordan, Benjamin .!., 427; Isabella, 
John, 310; Leonard C, 423. 

Junkin, Agnes, 410, 416, 417; Benja- 
min, 409, 410; David X., 410, 4i5; 
Ebenezer Dennj^ 415; Eleanor, 410, 
415; Eleanor Cochran, 405, 409, 
414, 415, 416; Ehzabeth, 410, 411; 
Elizabeth Wallace, 409; George, 
409, 414, 415; John, 409, 411; John 
Miller, 415; .Joseph, 405, 409, 410, 
414, 415, 416; Julia Rush Miller, 
Margaret, 415; Martha Findley, 
411; Mary, 410, 416; Matthew 
Oliver, 410; Rebecca, 407, 408, 412, 
413; WiUiam, 409; William Findley, 
410; William Finney, 415. 

Keiser, Michael H., 392. 

Kelley, Major, 313. 

Kellogg, Charles B., 448. 

Killough, Allen, 374. 

Kinnev, Henrv, Sarah Gregg, 320; 

326; Sarah I., 326. 
Kirker, James, Martha Carothers, 

321. 
Kirkpatrick, David, 338, 341. 
Klein, Casper, 471 ; Peter, 475. 
Knox, John, 408. 
Koler, Anna Elizabeth, Elias, 388 
Krauth Jolm M., 468. 
Kuhn, Emanuel, 305, 372. 

Lafayette, Gen., 323, 440. 

LamlD, John, 436, 438. 

Larimer, J. F., 330 

Lash, Emma J., James, 470. 

Latimer, Arthur, 310; George, 305, 
.309, 310; James, John, 310; Mar- 
garet, 305, 309, 310; Martiia. Rob- 
ert, Thomas, 310. 

Latta, E. D., Mrs., 365. 



Laughlin, Elizabeth, Sarah Simpson, 
Thomas, 368. 

Lawrence, Margaret, 386. 

Leiter, Jacob, 367. 

Lennox, Elizabeth Beatty, 465. 

Lepler, Rebecca Jane Cochran, 414. 

Lewis, Julia Ann, 413. 

Lincoln, Abraham, 324, 334, 341, 342, 
447; Mary Todd, Nancy Hanks, Rob- 
ert Todd, Thomas, William Wallace, 

Linn, James F., 327 ; Robert, 473. [447. 

Lionberger, Betty, 441. 

Little, Adam, 472; Andrew, 472, 473, 
480; Anna, 473; Anna Mary, 476; 
Anna Marv Schley, 482; Barbara, 
475, 476; Benjamin Franklin, 480; 
Benjamin Rush, 479, 482; Casper, 
471, 473, 474, 476-479; Catherine, 
472-476; Catherine Polly, 473; Cyn- 
thia D. Scarrett, 481; David, 472, 

474, 476; Dorothy, 474-476; Ed- 
mund H., 480; Elias, 472; Eliza- 
beth, 472, 474-476; Elizabeth 
Smith, 479; Esther, Esther Baird, 
Fannie, 476; Frederick, 474-476; 
George, 472; George Grier, 480; 
Hannah, 472, 476, 477 ; Henry, 472, 
474; Jacob, 472, 474, 477; Jemima, 
473; Jemima Hause, 480; Jesse, 474, 
480; John, 472, 479; Joseph, 472, 

475, 476; Juliana, 474; Louisa, 480; 
Louisa Catherine, 479, 481, 482; 
Ludwig, 474, 475; Magdalena, 474, 
476; Margaret, 474-476; Martha, 
473; Mary, 474, 475; Mary Ann, 
474; Mary Eva, 475; Mary 
Grier, 480; Mary Parker, 479, 
481; Mary Smith, 441, 479, 481, 
482; Michael, 475; Nancy Jane 
Findlay, 479; Peter, 475- Peter 
Washington, 441, 472, 478, 481, 
482; Rachel, 472; Richard, Robert 
Aquilla, 473; Robert Parker, 479, 
481 ; Ruth, 476; Samuel, 472; Sarah, 
474; Sarah F., 473; Sophia, 474; 
Susan, 472; Susanna, 471, 472, 475- 
479, 481; Thaddeus Stevens, 480; 
LTrsula Schreiver, 475; Veronica, 
472; William, 476. 

Livers, Robert, 307, 308. 

Lockhart, Mary, 408. 

Logan, 319; Benjamin, 442. 

Long, Agnes, 378, 382; Alexander, 
374, 378, 382, 383; Catherine, 378, 
383, 392 ; Mary, 378, 382, 391 ; Mary 
Poe, 377, 382," 383. 



502 



INDEX 



Lowden, John, 323. 

Lowe, Charles Gillespie, 423, 428; 

Elizabeth, James, 428; Mary Smith 

McFarland, 423, 428. 
Ludlow, Charlotte, Israel, 311. 

Maclay, John, 461 ; Sarah Ellen, 466. 

Maine, Barbara Sed borough, 353; 
John, 353, 354. 

Major, Robert, 433. 

Mankowski, Coimt, 365. 

Mansfield, John, Ralph, 359. 

Markle, Cyrus P., 333; Gaspard, 337; 
Leah, 333, 337; Mary Rothermel, 
333. 

Marlin, James, Sarah, 362. 

Martin, Col., 327; James, 465. 

Mason, Dr., 414, 416; John, 405. 

McAllister, Archibald, Sarah Bella, 
311. 

McBride, James, 340; Jane, 340, 361, 
363-365; John, Robert, 363. 

McCall, Elizabeth, Grizzel, 423. 

McCalmont, Elizabeth, 432. 

McClanahan, Matthew, Matthew Pot- 
ter, William Elliott, 316. 

McClelland, Marv Potter, Robert, 
William, 314. 

McClure, Elizabeth, James, 317. 

McConnell, John, 383. 

McCuUough, Francis, 437. 

McDerniott, Josephine, 443, 449; Wil- 
liam, 443. 

McDonald the Smith, 451, 452. 

McDowell, Agnes Craig, 467;- Alex- 
ander, 393; Annabelle, 452, 463; 
Annie Catherine, 427; Archibald 
B., 393; Edward Campbell, 427; 
Eliza Parker, 426; Elizabeth, 438; 
Franklin, 427 ; Henry C, 426 ; James 
452, 456, 461, 463; Jane, 426; Jane 
Cochrane McFarland, 423, 426; 
Jean Smith, 461, 463; John, 466, 
467; John Clendenin, John McFar- 
land, 426; Margaret, 452; Margaret 
Bard, 393; Mary, 452, 461, 466, 467; 
Mary Davidson, Mary C. David- 
son,' Milton G., 426; Robert, 427, 
452; Sarah, 452; Thomas, Thomas 
Hugh, 426; William, 427, 452; Wil- 
liam Henrv, 423 426; William 
Smith, 452." 

McElhare Maria Harbison, 379. 

McFarland, Alice Robison, 428; Ann, 
420, 421, 425; Ann Patton, 423; 
Anna Fullerton, 427; Arthur, 433; 



David Fullerton, 428; Eliza Parker^ 
423, 426, 428, 441; Elizabeth Por- 
ter, 423; Ellen J. Robison, 427 
James, 418. 433; Jane Cochran 420, 
423, 426; Jean, 419; Jean Cochran, 
400, 419, 423, 424; Jennie H., 430 
John, 418, 420, 423, 426, 427, 428, 
433, 441 ; John Davidson, 427; John 
Franklin, 423; Joseph, 418, 419 
Margaret, 433 ; Mary, 420, 424, 433 
Mary Louisa, 428 ; Mary Smith, 423 
428;" Prudence, 419; Rachel, 418 
Robert, 400, 418-421, 423, 424 
Robert C, 419; Robert Parker, 423 
427; Robert Robison, 428; Stephen 
419; Susie Briggs, 430; Thomas 
Bard, 423, 428-430 ; Thomas Frank- 
lin, 428; Virginia Martha, 427. 

McGowan, David, James M., Joseph, 
Robert, Stewart, Thomas B., 434. 

McKee, Catherine Carothers, Joseph 
D., 317. 

McKeen, Thomas, 437. 

McKinley, William, 450. 

McKinnie, Anna Maria, Be.ssie F., 
393; Catherine, 385; Catherine 
Long, Elizabeth, 392; Elizabeth 
Bard, 385; Harold Austin, 393; 
James, 385; Josiah, 392, 393; Mag- 
gie Bell, Margaretta, Mary Isabella, 
Marv Jane, Rebecca Covle, 393; 
Robert, 384, 392; Rose Edna, 393; 
Sarah Jane, Walter, William A., 
392; William Waddell, 393. 

McKinstry, Mary, 423. 

McKnight, Elizabeth, Elizabeth O'- 
Hara Dennj', Robert, 332. 

McLanahan, Andrew Gregg, 328; 
George, 340; Isabella Craig, James 
328; James Xavier, 328, 340; Jane 
McBride, 340; Mary, 328; Mary 
Gregg, 320, 327, 340; William, 320, 
328, 340. 

McLene, Daniel, 452. 

McMillan, Hannah, John, 310. 

McMuUen, Alexander, 378, 385; Alex- 
ander R., Catherine McKinnie, 
Ellen, Eva, James P., 385; James 
Poe, 378; John, 374, 378, 385, 
387; Joseph C, 385; Margaret, 378, 
385, 387; Marv E., 339; Mary Poe, 
378, 385, 387; Rachel, 378, 387; 
Rebecca Campbell, Sarah A., 385; 
Thomas, 378; William Harvey, 385. 

McMurtrie, David, 332; Ellen, 332, 
344; Martha Elliott, 332. 



INDEX 



503 



McNulty, Howard B., 480. 

McPherson, Robert, 473, 474. 

Mennon, Patrick, 435. 

Mercer, Hugh, 375. 

Mervyn, Sir Audley, Christiana, 

Henry, 355; .James, 350, 354, 355. 
Michler, Ehza, Peter, 446. 
Miles, Marston, 328. 
Miller, Catherine, 387, 472; Catherine 

Little, 476; Charles Harris, 339; 

Frederick, 472, 477; Henrietta, 477; 

John, 415; John C, 339; .lulia Rush, 

415; Margaret Irvin, 416. 
Milligan, Marv, 441; Mary Jane, 391. 
Mitchell, Alexander, 397, 419; David, 

Eliza Gregg, 320; John B., 331; 

Sarah, 407. 
Monckton, Col., 323. 
Montgomery, Major, 318, 319. 
Moore, Mary, 366. 
Morris, Margaret, 311. 
Morrow. James, Jane, Jeremiah, 408 

John, 407, 408; Margaret, 408 

Maria, 384; Martha, Mary, 408 

Mary Lockhart, 407, 408. 
Mover, Andrew G. C, Frederick, 

Lucy Wilson, William W., 326. 
Muhlenberg, Peter, 437. 
Murray, Jeremiah, 407; Sarah, 408. 
Myers,' Mary E., 339. 

Nead, Matthias, 377. 

Neiz, Catherine, 477, 478; John Henry, 

478. 
Nelson, William, 433. 
Nesbet, Hattie, Thomas E., 365. 
Newell, Grizzel, 456; Mary, 421, 423; 

William, 456. 
Niccolls, J. A., 335. 
Nichols, John, Mary Jane, 316. 
Norman, Salina Shirley, 366. 

O'Bannon, Minor, 441. 
O'Caine, Richard, 456. 
Ogden, Margaret, 473. 
Oliver, Walter, 410. 
O'Neale, Bryan, 354. 
Ormond, Thomas, 362. 

Pancoast, Dr., 343. 

Parker, Abraham, 431 ; Alexander, 
432; .\ndrew William, 442; Ann 
Ehza, 441, 446; Ann Maria, 442; 
Archibald, 431, 432, 433; Camille, 
442; Ehza, 423, 426-428, 441; 
Elizabeth, 432, 433, 435, 438, 443- 



445; Elizabeth Jane, 442; Elizabeth 
Porter, 438, 441, 446; Elizabeth 
Todd, 432, 433, 435, 438; Isabella, 
434; James, 431-433, 441; James 
Porter, 441, 442; Jean, 4.34; John, 
431, 433, 441; John Allen, John 
Todd, 442; Jonas, .Joseph, 431; 
Margaret, 433 ; Martha, 441 ; Mary, 
432-434, 441 ; Mary Ann, 441 ; Mary 
Eliza, 442; Marv Smith, 423, 441, 
458, 479; Mary Todd, 433, 441; 
Nancy, NeUie, ^433; Phineas, 439, 
440; Robert, 423, 432, 433, 438-442, 
446, 4,58, 479; Robert Henrv, 442; 
Robert Porter, 433, 438, 441 ; Wil- 
liam, 431-433, 435, 438, 441. 

Patterson, James, Mary, 314, 315; 
Mary Stewart, 315; Nicholas, 419; 
Stuart, 417; Thomas, 411. 

Patton, Andrew J., Elias, 423; Eliza- 
beth, 422, 423; Harriet Scott, 425; 
James, 421-423, 425; Jane Cochran, 
422; John, 421, 422; Margaret, 
Marv, 423; Mary Ann, 422; Mary 
Newell, 421, 423; Matthew, 308, 
420-425; Rebecca, Rebecca Mar- 
garet, 423; Rebecca Scott, 425; 
Robert, 422, 423; Robert McFar- 
land, 421 ; Samuel, Sarah, Thomas, 
422. 

Peden, David, 362. 

Perkins, George C, 429. 

Peters, Daniel, 473. 

Pew, William, 360. 

Phelps, Oliver, 445. 

Piper, Margaret, 460, 466; Sarah Mc- 
Dowell, William, 460. 

Poe, Adam, 367, 368; Alexander, 360- 

363, 369; Alice, 350; Andrew, 367, 
368; Ann, 359; Anne, 350, 361 ; Anne 
Goodwin, 359; Ann Hide, 359, 369; 
Anthony, 349, 350, 356-358, 369, 
370; Catherine Dawson, 364; Cath- 
erine Ziegler, 367; Charles, 368; 
Daniel, 358; David, 359-363, 368; 
Edgar Allen, 360, 361, 363, 364; 
Edmond, 349; Edward, 359, 370; 
Eliza White, 365; Elizabeth, 350; 
Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins, 364; 
Elizabeth Cairnes, 363, 364; Ehza- 
beth Cochran, Elizabeth Laughlin, 
368; Elizabeth Rutan, 367; Ellen, 
366; Frances Sedborough, 350, 351, 
353; Frances Winslow, 365, 366; 
Francis Winslow, 366 ; George, 363, 

364, 367; George Jacob, Harris, 366; 



504 



INDEX 



James, 349, 350; Jane McBride, 361, 
363-365; Jean, 363; John, 350, 359, 
361, 362, 364, 369: John P., 364; 
Kate, 367; Leonard, 349; Maria, 
363 ; Margaret, 362 ; Mary, 358, 362, 
363, 366; Marv Jones," 353, 354; 
Matilda, 365; "Nancy Hoy, 368; 
Nannie, 366; Neilson, 364; Nelson, 
Oliver, 366; Orlando Metcalfe, 368; 
Patrick, 366; Richard, 349, 350, 
369, 370; Robert, 370; Robert For- 
syth, 365; Rosalie, 364; Sarah, 361, 
362; Susan, 366; Susanna Warner, 
368; Thomas, 349, 354, 356, 357, 
366, 368, 370; Virginia Clemm, 364; 
Washington, 365, 366; William, 
349, 350, 352-354, 356, 357, 359, 
360, 363, 365, 366, 370; William 
Henry Leonard, 364. 

Poe Family of Conococheague, Alice 
Myrtle, 388; Angeline, Martha 380; 
Anna Elizabeth Koler, Bruce Albert 
388; Catherine, 301, 302, 374, 388; 
Charlotte, 377; Eliza, 376, Eliza C, 
377; Elizabeth Cathcart, 314; Eliza- 
beth Cathcart Potter, 376, 379, 380, 
381; Emma Elizabeth, 388; Har- 
riet, 376, 377 ; Hazel, Henry Frank- 
lin, 388; Isabella Harbison, 379, 
388; Isabella Marion, 379; James, 
310, 312, 314, 373-377, 379-381; 
James Potter, 379; John, 376, 377, 
379, 388; John E., 379, 388; John 
Edgar, 380; Margaret, 377, 380, 
388, 390; Mary, 374-377; Mary 
Potter, 315; Minnie Blanche, 388; 
Susanna, 315, 374, 377, 381, 391; 
Thomas, 301-303, 315, 369-372, 
375-377, 388; Thomas Harbison, 
379; William, 376, 377, 388. 

Pollock, James, 341. 

Porter, Alexander Parker, 437; An- 
drew, 432, 435-438, 440, 443-445; 
Andrew Parker, Anna M., 446; 
Anna Maria, 437; Cephas Little, 
481 ; Charlotte, 437; Caroline Reily, 
444; David Rittenhouse, 438, 44"3, 
449; Eliza Michler, 446; Elizabeth, 
438, 441, 446; Elizabeth McDowell, 
438; Elizabeth Reilv, 444 ; Elizabeth 
Parker, 432, 435, 443-446; Emma, 
444; Emma W., 446; George B., 
479, 481; George Bryan, 435, 444, 
George W., 444; Gov., 425; Harriet 
437; Harriet P., 446; Henry, 444; 
Horace, 444, 449, 450; Humes, 445; 



James M., 446; James Madison, 438, 
440 445; John Biddle, 445; John 
Ewing, 437; Josephine, 444; Jose- 
phine McDermott, 443, 449; Lafay- 
ette, 445; Mary, 438; Mary S., 446; 
Rebecca R., 444; Robert, "435, 437 
438; Rose, Sarah Louise, 445; Ste- 
phen, 433; Susanna Little, 479, 481; 
William, 438; William Augustus, 
444. 
Potter, Abraham 299; Amelia Bvirn- 
side, 325, 339; Andrew Gregg, 318, 
322; Annas, 310; Anne, 315; Annie 
Ameha, 323; Catherine, 310, 316, 
321 ; Charles H., 323; Clementina B. 
Brown, 325; Donald Somerville, 
347; Dudley Blanchard, 339; Eliza 
A. Root, 325; Elizabeth, 300; Eliza- 
beth Cathcart, 314, 315, 376, 380, 
381; Elizabeth Sanderson, 347; 
Ellen Dorsev, 325; George, 299; 
George Latimer 318, 322, 338, 347, 
348; George Latimer (II), 338, 348; 
Hamilton, 325; Hannah, 310; 
Harris, 348; Harry Melville, 339; 
Henrv Root, 325;"^ Irvin Walters, 
322; "Isabella, 300, 302, 303, 307, 
310; Jacob Lex, 323; James, 300, 
306-310, 312-315, 318, 319, 375, 
376; James (II), 314, 318, 322, 324, 
325; James (III), 318, 322, 324, 325, 
338; James (IV), 322; James G., 
325; James Harris, 338, 347; Jan- 
net Harris, 348; John, 299, 300, 
302-312, 314-316, 318, 322, 325, 
339, 371, 374; John Elmer, 339; 
John Irvin, 338; Linn, 338; Louisa 
French Lucy Maria, 339; Lucy 
Winters, 324"; Margaret, 305, 309, 
314, 316; Margaret Crouch, 319; 
Margarite, 347 ; Maria L., 322 ; Maria 
Wilson, 322, 324, 325, 338; Martha, 
300, 301, 306,309, 310,314,315,319, 
327, 328, 330-332; Martha Gregg, 
319; Mary, 301, 302, 310, 314, 316, 
374; Mary Ann, 339; Mary Brown, 
318, 322, 324, 325; Mary Elizabeth, 
339; Marv Ellen, 323; Mary McMul- 
len, Mary Myers, 339; Mary P., 318, 
325, 343'; Mary Patterson, 314, 318, 
319; Mary Somer^-ille, 347; Olivia, 
315; Saniuel, 309, 315, 374; Sarah 
Irvin, 338, 347; Susan, 322; Susan 
French, 348; Susan Irvin, 322, 324. 
347; Susanna Poe, 315, 374; 
Thomas, 299, 301, 302, 309, 310, 



INDEX 



505 



315; Thomas Burnside, 325, 339; 
Thomas Duncan, 322; Thamasine 
Harris, 338, 347, 348; Thamasine, 
T., 339; Wilham, 299, 300, 376; 
WilHam Mvers, 339; Wilham N., 
325; Wilham W., 318, 324, 341; 
William Wilson, 322, 338, 346. 

Powell, Arthur, David, Jonathan, 
361; Isabella, James, 317. 

Preston, John P. L., Margaret, 415. 

Proctor, Capt., 439; Thomas, 436, 438. 

Putnam, Helen Maria, 482. 

Quantrill, Charles, 473. 

Rankin, Agnes Long, Archibald, 378, 
383; Da\-id, Frances, James, Jean, 
Jeremiah, Ruth, William, 383. 

Rannals, John, 381; Phanuel, 380, 
381- Ruth, 381. 

Reed, Judge, 341. 

Reiffe David, 473. 

Reily, Emilv, Luther, Rebecca Orth, 
444. 

Reynolds, Margaret, 476; Thomas R., 
329. 

Rhodes, Carrie R., 413; Marv Jane, 
393. 

Richards, Daisy, John Custis Mary, 
Sarah, 328. 

Richardson, Elizabeth, Jane, John 
C, Robert Parker, Sarah, 441. 

Richej', Jane Carothers, 321 ; .John, 
32l" 386; Margaret Speer, Marv, 
386. 

Rice, John Findlay, Perry A., Robert 
Smith Findlay, Sarah Findlay, 
Thomas Williard, William Perrv, 
470. 

Riddles, George, Mary Potter, 314. 

Rippej-, William, 336.' 

Riske, Charlotte, Da\-id, 311. 

Rittenhouse, David, 435. 

Robinson, Hannah, 310; John D., 
408; Thomas, 310. 

Robison, Andrew 453; DaAnd F., 
Ellen J., 427; Esther, James, Jennet, 
Margaret, Mary, Rebeckah 453; 
Robert, 376. 453. 

Rogers, Mary, 455. 

Root, Eliza A., 325. 

Rosecrans, Gen., 449. 

Roan, Flavel, John, Margaret, 396. 

Ross, Isabella, John, 397. 

Rowan, Abraham, 397; Ann, Cor- 
nelius, 396, 397; Da\id, 397 



Rvmckle, Julia Ann Wertzel, Wendel, 
478. 

Runkel, Aletha Malvina, Anna, 478; 
Catherine, 477; Catherine Neiz, 477, 
478; Edwin, 477; Hannah Little, 
472, 477; John, 478; John Wilhelm, 
477; .John W^illiam, 477, 478; Le- 
vesa La.ssina, Margaret, 478; Theo- 
dore Lilienthal, 477; William, 472, 
477, 478. 

Rupp, Elizabeth, 478. 

Rush, Benjamin, 479; Dr., 406. 

Rutan, Elizabeth, 367. 

Sage, William H., 343. 

Sample, Da\ad, 412. 

Sanderson, Elizabeth J., W. C, 347. 

Sanks, James, 382. 

Scarrett, C>-nthia D., 481. 

Schlev, .Anna Marv, David, Georgiana 
Clem, 482. 

Schreiver, Ursula, 475. 

Schuvler, Gertrude, Peter, 399, 401; 
Philip, 399. 

Scott, Abraham, 323; Alexander W., 
425; Anne, Archibald, 361; Eliza 
Jane, Harriet, James D., 425; Jean, 
321; Margaretta, 425; Mary, 323, 
425; Rebecca Douglass, Sarah Ann, 
Thomas, 425; Thomas Alexander, 
425, 426; WiUiam, 321; Wilham B., 
311; Wilham P., 426; Ruhamah, 
311. 

Scribner, Ellen Dorsey Potter, Henry 
Potter, Louise, Nelly Potter, Percy 
Root, Robert Winthrop, Winthrop, 
325. 

Seaburn, Susan, 423. 

Sedborough, Frances, 350, 351, 353; 
.John, 350-353; Peter, 353. 

Seibert, Agnes Welsh Grove, Barnard, 
Charles Fremont, Edward G., Jos- 
eph Warren, Mary Virginia, Re- 
becca Louisa Samuel, 480. 

Series, Louisa, 447. 

Seward, William H , 341. 

Sheaff, Ellen F., 345. 

Shepler, J. T., 335. 

Sherfv, Joseph, 473. 

Sliields, David, 378. 

Shissler, Lewis, Sarah Humes Porter, 
445. 

Shunk, Francis R., 330, 461. 

Sloan, D. D., 366. 

Sloo, Thomas, 461. 

Smart, John, 405. 



506 



INDEX 



Smith, Abraham, 375, 383, 453, 458, 
463-465; Agnes, 459, 464; Allan, 
447; Ann, 458; Anna Wilson, 455; 
Annabella, 469; Catherine, 458; 
Charles K., 456; C. M., Clara, Ed- 
ward, 447; Elizabeth, 455, 458; 
Ehzabeth Irwin, 463, 467-469; 
Ellen A., 456; George E., 387; Griz- 
zel Newell, 456; Isaac, 458; J. M., 
455; James, 452, 454-458; James 
Findlav, 469; Jane, 456, 458, 460, 
464, 467, 469; Jean, 452-454, 456, 
458; Jennet, 453, 456, 458; John, 
453, 455 ; John Johnston, 469 ; Jona- 
than, 452, 456; Marcella, 456; Mar- 
garet, 453, 456, 458; Margaret Piper, 
460, 466; Mary, 441, 452, 456, 458 
460, 462, 463; Mary Parker, 469 
Mary Rogers, 455; Matthew, 461 
Minnie, 447; Oliver, 458; Rebecca 
455, 458, 459, 462, 465; Robert 
421, 452-454, 456, 463, 467-469 
Samuel, 383, 455, 458, 459; Sarah 
460, 464, 466, 469; Sarah Rebecca 
469; William, 441, 452, 453, 455- 
458, 460, 462-464, 466, 468; Wil- 
liam Johnston, 469. 

Snyder, Gov., 437. 

Somer\alle, Mary, 347. 

Sourbier, Jemima, 473. 

Sparks, Samuel, 477. 

Spaulding, Annie Amelia Potter, W. 
C, 323. 

Speer, Alexander, 382, 383, 391; 
Alexander A., Elizabeth, 392; 
James, 382, 383; John, 378, 382 
383, 391; Margaret, 392; Margaret 
Windom, 391 ; Maria, 392; Maria H. 
Coyle, 391; Mary, 382, 383; Mary 
Long, 382, 391 : Nathaniel, William, 
383. 

Stabler, Arthur, 427. 

Stanberg, Frances, 462. 

Steck, George, 376. 

Steedman, William C, 327. 

Steiner, Rachael M., 339. 

Stewart, George, Mary, 315. 

Stock, M., 477. 

Stockton, Caleb, 391; E'eanor C, 
390, 391; Elizabeth, 384, 386. 

Stonehouse, Sir James, 353. 

Stoops, Mary, Thomas, 308. 

Stouffer, Henry, Mary, Mary Flick- 
inger, 380. 

Stout, Lettie A., 482. 

Stuart, J. E. B., 470 



Sullivan, Gen., 436, 439. 
Symmes, Dr., 366. 

Talbot, Elizabeth, Hillary, 465; Jere- 
miah, 459, 465; Mary Smith, 465; 
Rebecca Smith, 459, 465. 

Taylor, Caroline, Isaac, 321 

Tesson, Dr., Margaret Duncan, 322. 

Thomas Roland, 328. 

Thompson, Alexander, 336; Andrew 
A., 346; Andrew Finley, 333, 337; 
Col., 323; Dr., 399; Eliza Carothers, 
321, 333, 345, 346; John R., 346; 
Joseph Markle, 321, 333, 345, 346; 
Josiah v., 335, 346; Leah Markle, 
333, 337; Leona M., 335; Martha, 
336; Marv Jack, 336, 337; Ruth 
E., 335; Samuel, 336; Thomas, 335, 
336; William, 336, 337; William 
M., 335, 345, 346. 

Todd, Alexander B., 448; Andrew, 

432, 433; Ann Eliza Parker, 441, 
445; Ann Maria, 447; Catherine 
Bodley, 448; David, 432, 433; 
David Humphreys, 445; Elinor 
McFarland, 433; Elizabeth, 432, 

433, 435, 438; Elizabeth Parker, 
Ellen, 447; Elodie, Emilie, 448; 
Frances J., George Rogers Clarke, 
447; Isabella, 433; Isabella Hamil- 
ton, 432, 433; Jane Briggs, 446; 
John, 432; Levi, 433, 446, 447; 
Louisa, 447; Margaret, Martha K., 
448; Marv, 433, 441, 447; Rebecca, 
433; Robert, 432, 433, 447; Robert 
Smith, 441, 446-448, Samuel, 433; 
Samuel Briggs, 448; Sarah, 433; 
Susan, 447; William, William L., 
433. 

Todhunter, Jacob, Parker E., 433. 

Torrence, George P., 461. 

Trindle, John, 409. 

Trout, Mary Salome, 393. 

Tuchett,Sir Mervyn, 354. 

Tucker, Charles, Margery Gregg, 

320. 
Tweed, Margaret, 464. 
Tyler, President, 446. 

Ussher, John, Sir William, 355. 

Valentine, Abraham, Martha Gregg 
Potter, 319. 

Van Tries, Abraham, 381, 382, Elea- 
nor, 391 : George Latimer, Henry 
Smith, John M., Louisa, 382; Mary 



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Jane Milligan, 391; Matilda, 3S2; 
Samuel, 379, 381, 391; Susanna 
Poe, 381, 391; Thomas Campbell, 
382, 391; William Potter, 391. 

Waddell, Alexander, Archibald, 384; 
Caleb Stockton, 387; Catherine, 
386; Catherine Long, 378, 383, 392; 
Eliza, 384, 392; Elizabeth Stock- 
ton, 384, 386; Frances Ann, 387; 
James Poe, 384; Jane McClelland, 
329; John, 384, 386; John Calvin, 
Margaret, 386 ; Margaret McMuUen, 
378, 385; Mary, 386; Mary Erwin, 
384; Nancy Rankin, Rachel, 386, 
Ruth Grubb, 392; Sarah, 386; Sarah 
Jane, 387; Thomas, 378, 383, 392; 
Thomas Alexander, 392; Thomas 
Poe, 387; William, 375, 384, 386, 
387, 392; William Lawrence, 386. 

Wallace, Charles E., Edward D., 447; 
Ehzabeth, 410, 447; Frances, 447; 
John, 410, 447; Lydia Smith, Mary 
F., 447; Ruth Little, 476; WiUiam 
F., William Smith, 447. 

Warner, Susanna, 368. 

Washington, George, 313, 363, 399, 
436, 455. 

Watson, Ann, James, 324; Sarah, 316. 

Wayne, Anthony, 323. 

Wheeler, James M., 444. 

Whipple, Samuel, Susan J., 412. 

White, C. B., 448; Eliza, 365; Mar- 
garet, 423. 

Whitlock, Rose, 431. 

Willcox, Joseph e, 413. 

Willett, Emeline, 316. 

William, King, 451. 

Williard, Cephas Little, Edward 
Rush, George Parker, 482; George 
Washington, 479, 482; John New- 
ton, 482; Louisa Catherine Little, 
479, 481, 482; Maria Louisa, Mary 
Louisa, Minnie, Reuben Hershman, 
482. 



Wilson, Abraham Scott, 323; Alice, 
327; Allen D., 326; Ann Campbell, 
424; Anna, 455; Catherine Irvine, 
325, 326, 343; EUza, 320; Eliza 
Dick, 412; Elizabeth, Ellen Dick- 
son, 326; Francis, Frank, 327; 
Hannah J., 412; Hugh, 325, 327; 
Hugh Irvine, 326; Isaac, 422; James 
Potter, 326; Jane, 412; Jane Coch- 
ran, 424; John, 327, 424; Joseph, 
396, 312; Julia I., Laura, Lucv P., 
326; Maria, 322, 324, 325, 338; 
Martha Bard, 424; Mary A., 326; 
Mary P. Potter, 318, 325; Mary 
Scott, 323; Mary Smith, Prudence 
Ann, Robert McFarland, 424; Sam- 
uel Hunter, 323; Sarah Craig, 327; 
Sarah Kinney, 326; Thomas, 327; 
Wayne McVeigh, 326; William, 
322", 323, 346, 412, 420, 424; Wil- 
liam Ashlev, 424; William Irvine, 
318, 325, 343; William P., 326. 

Windom, Margaret, 391. 

Winslow, Frances, 365. 

Winters, Eleanor Campbell, 324; 
Ellen, 325; Lucv, 324; Mary, 325; 
William, 324. 

Woods, John, 304. 

Work, Andrew, 463; Anna Lizzie, 
Mary Rebecca, Rebecca M., Sam- 
uel Johnston, William, 469. 

Worthington, Amos, 324. 

Yough, Jenny, 398. 

Young, Alexander, 310; Alexander 

Dean, Anna Mary, 468; Annas, 

James, 310; William, 468. 

Zeller, David, 479, 481; Harrie Mo- 
Keen, Mary Parker, 481 ; Mary 
Parker Little, 479, 481; William 
Mehille, 481. 

Ziegler, Barbara Beck, Catherine, 
George, 367. 






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